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Ljiljan was a Bosnian weekly news-political and cultural news magazine. It is named after the golden Bosnian lily, which is considered the national symbol of the Bosniak people. It was founded by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) (Bosnian: Stranka demokratske akcije) in 1990 as a successor to Muslimanski Glas (Muslims' Voice), the official bulletin of the party. With the name change it obtained a formal editorial independence, though it still reflected conservative Bosniak political positions, close to the SDA party.[1] For instance, figures connected to Ljiljan have been known to oppose mixed marriages between Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs,[3] deeming them an imposition from the Socialist times.[4][5] It was published in Sarajevo and distributed in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad.[1] In 1996 its circulation was 60,000 copies, of which 85% abroad.[2]

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In a 1998 study, Ljiljan was found to proactively employ Turkish, Arabic, and Persian loanwords over Slavic equivalents as a symbolic affirmation of Islamic identity.[6] In a similar 2002 study, the magazine was also found, along with Dnevni avaz, which also has a Bosniak nationalist orientation, to favour a conservative approach to linguistic standards of the Bosnian language rather than liberally employing terms which are considered "Serbian" or "Croatian."[7]

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  1. [1]
    Michael Biggins; Janet Crayne (2000). Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States. Psychology Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-7890-1046-9.
  2. [2]
    Zoran Udovičic (1996), Guide for Journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina (PDF), Sarajevo: Information Centre of MEDIA PLAN
  3. [3]
    Sadowski, Yahya M. (1995). "Bosnia's Muslims: A Fundamentalist Threat?". The Brookings Review. 13 (1): 15. doi:10.2307/20080522. ISSN 0745-1253. JSTOR 20080522. Pluralists now dominate both the leadership of the SDA and the Bosnian government. But if the war and the occupation and the terror continue, Bosniak nationalism may make a comeback. Prominent members of the SDA are still campaigning for this option. Enes Karić, Minister of Culture, has tried to forbid Sarajevo radio stations from playing songs written by Serbs. Džemaludin Latić, editor of the SDA weekly Ljiljan, advocates a ban on mixed marriages.
  4. [4]
    Helms, Elissa (2008). "East and West Kiss: Gender, Orientalism, and Balkanism in Muslim-Majority Bosnia-Herzegovina". Slavic Review. 67 (1): 99–100. doi:10.2307/27652770. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 27652770. S2CID 163173499. During the war, Džemaludin Latić, a prominent pan-Islamist, wrote a series of articles in the Bosniac nationalist magazine Ljiljan warning of the dangers of "mixed marriages" between Muslims and non-Muslims. He accused those who praised this practice of seeking to mould Bosniacs into "a sad copy of European Satanism," thereby leading the nation into "total spiritual capitulation." Proponents of mixed marriage were characterized as "secularized and Eurocentric" old communists who have forgotten "the neighborhood with Mother and the mosque in the center" from which they came. Europe thus represented a rejection of religion, morality, and tradition, in short, of the essence of Bosniac identity, symbolized by the "mother" as the guardian of the family and spiritual purity.
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    Tanja Petrovic, Ugrabljena ljubezen / Oteta ljubav / Abducted Love: Priroènik za pouk državljanske vzgoje / Priruènik za nastavu graðanskog vaspitanja / Workbook for the teaching about civic education. Volume 2 of Zbirka Moj zvezek. Ed. Založba ZRC, 2011, p.96
  6. [6]
    Thomas, Paul-Louis (1998). "FONCTION COMMUNICATIVE ET FONCTION SYMBOLIQUE DE LA LANGUE sur l'exemple du serbo-croate : bosniaque, croate, serbe". Revue des études slaves. 70 (1): 31. doi:10.3406/slave.1998.6477. ISSN 0080-2557. JSTOR 43272527.
  7. [7]
    Ford, Curtis (2002). "Language Planning in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The 1998 Bihać Symposium". The Slavic and East European Journal. 46 (2): 349–361. doi:10.2307/3086180. ISSN 0037-6752. JSTOR 3086180.


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