Fikret Karčić
Prof. Dr. Fikret Karcic, born in Višegrad in 1955, is a chairmanship member of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and served as the president of their court of justice from 2002 until 2008. He teaches comparative law history at the law faculty of the University of Sarajevo and Islamic legal history at the Islamic studies faculty in Sarajevo, the latter being sponsored by the Islamic Community. Furthermore, he had guest professorships in several places including Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur and Oslo. Prof. Karcic’s treatise on the method of text analysis in Islamic studies was written as a contribution to a project initiated by the University of Kuala Lumpur with the aim of creating an intra-Islamic standard textbook of theological and legal methodology.