Seid Ef Kadia Karic

From Behind the Stacks Of The Library of Time Seid Ef Kadia Karic

Seid ef. Kadia Karic (1916-1985) was one of the founding members and strongest supporters of the Moslem Cultural Home founded by Bosnian-American Muslims in Chicago, Illinois in the mid1950s. He arrived in the United States in 1951 after graduating from the school of Higher Shariah in Sarajevo and being a prisoner of war during the Second World War. He helped immigrants from Yugoslavia and wad a leader of Bosnian Muslims in the United States and served as a weekend school teacher and assistant imam. Karic was edited Glasnik - Muslimanskog Vjerskog i Kulturnog Doma (the first Bosnian Muslim periodical in the United States) from 1958-1960. In 1963 he moved to Bloomington, Indiana to work as a foreign language cataloguer and acquisitions director for Slavic languages, Turkish, and Arabic after receiving a master's in library science from Indiana University. This is the first collection of his writings and includes excerpts from his Doctoral Dissertation on Bosnian and Venetian diplomatic correspondence written in Bosnian Cyrillic in the 16th and 17th centuries and his articles from Bosnian and Bosnian-American periodicals.