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Accepted Paper:
Under the Gaibi's Tree: Memory, Ecology and the Post-Ottoman Landscape in Croatia
Emina Hodžić
(Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Paper short abstract:
The paper sheds light on the changes in landscape and everyday practices related to the Ottoman heritage in the contemporary Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author discusses memory, fractured landscape, ecology, the past embedded in the landscape and the future reshaping of it.
Paper long abstract:
Mustafa Gaibi (derived from Ar.: hidden, unseen, absent) was a sufi master of the Jelveti dervish order who lived in the seventeenth century. He was well known for his prophecies and was respected among Muslims and Christians alike. Gaibi died in Stara Gradiška in today's Republic of Croatia and was buried there. His turbe (mausoleum) stood there for around two and a half centuries. Around 1954 the turbe was relocated from Stara Gradiška to Bosanska Gradiška in Bosnia and Herzegovina where it stands now. According to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina the Turbe of Sheikh Gaibi is designated as a national monument.
The author of this paper attempts at highlighting the reasons for the dislocation of Gaibi's turbe. On the basis of archival documents and the qualitativ ethnological and cultural anthropological field research in Stara Gradiška and Bosanska Gradiška she detected changes in memories and ladscapes on the both sides of the border.