Edhem Mulabdić

Edhem Mulabdić
Born	(1862-10-19)19 October 1862 Maglaj, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Died	29 January 1954(1954-01-29) (aged 91) Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Pen name	Ašik Garib
Occupation	Novelist, historiographer
Language	Bosnian
Nationality	Bosniak
Period	1892-1944
Notable works	Zeleno Busenje

Edhem Mulabdić (19 October 1862 – 29 January 1954) was a Bosnian writer and co-founder of the political journal Behar.^[1]

Edhem Mulabdić was born in Maglaj in 1862, where he finished Islamic elementary school maktab and then got a job as a clerk. From Brčko he was transferred to Sarajevo, where he worked as a teacher at the Islamic school Dural-mualimmin. Soon he was elected as a national assembly in Maglaj. He stayed on that position until January 1929. Together with Safvet beg Bašagić and Osman Nuri Hadžić, Mulabdić would be one of the founders and originators of several welfare associations and publications, such as Behar in 1900 and Gajret in 1903.^[2][3]

His novel Zeleno busenje is regarded as the most significant work of this author, as well as the first Bosniak novel.^[4] Edhem Mulabdić's works would come to have a huge importance of the development of the Bosniak culture and education in late 19th and early 20th century.

• Zeleno busenje, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1898^[5]
• Nova vremena, slika iz novijeg života u Bosni, Mostar, 1914
• Kumovi
• Garib
• Nišan
• Zekonja
• Tajno pismo

• Nesretan unuk
• Đuro Prepelica
• Aga i kmet
• Lov
• Tahiraga
• Šehiti
• Bajram
• Kućni rahatluk
• Uspomene u narodu

• Kod starog djeda
• Osmanlija
• Rukovjet šale, Sarajevo, 1893
• Na obali Bosne (zbirka pripovijetki), Matica hrvatska, Zagreb
• Crtice, Sarajevo, 1907
• Izabrane pripovijesti, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1944
• Svak na posao, Sarajevo, 1934
• Izabrana djela, Sarajevo, 1974