Book "Who was Meša Selimović" caused different reactions in BiH

The book "Who was Meša Selimović" has caused different reactions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the author Sead Zubanović, Selimović was a Greater Serbian ideological product who worked against Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosniaks.

On the other hand, Sarajevo publicist and imam Muhamed ef. Velić says he is not interested in what Mehmed Meša Selimović declared himself to be (under the pressure of "the times") and who claimed him and still claims him, Mehmed Meša Selimović is, by his name and surname, and most of all by his two works "The Dervish and Death" and "The Fortress" - a Bosniak writer.

- And it cannot be otherwise! I won't give him up - we won't give him up! Ahmed Nuruddin is ours. The philosopher, revolutionary, and rebel Hasan is ours. Ahmet Šabo is ours.
That is ours. Ore extracted from the Bosniak mine. And I do not renounce that. God forbid! - Velić said, reports the BiH news agency Patria.

In the book "Who was Meša Selimović", Zubanović reminds how Selimović writes about dervishes, tekkes, quotes the Quran somewhere, his characters have Muslim names, which pleases the Bosniak ear. However, Zubanović immediately asks further how it is possible that Meša Selimović is loved, cared for, and glorified by the greatest Chetnik ideologues, such as Dobrica Ćosić and Matija Bećković?

He cannot be ours and theirs! Why don't Meša's Chetnik ideologues like other Bosniak writers, for example, Rešad Kadić, Nedžad Ibrišimović, Isnam Taljić, who are entirely in Muslim spirituality, even half as much? Uncomfortable questions, and clear answers - it is stated in the book "Who was Meša Selimović", which unequivocally states that Selimović was a Greater Serbian ideological product, who had the role of de-Islamizing Bosniaks.

The book "Who was Meša Selimović" was recently promoted in the Gazi Husrev-beg Library in Sarajevo, writes NAP.