''Behar'' was a

Bosniak The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

political

magazine A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

published twice monthly between 1900 and 1911. The word ''behar'' (blossom in Bosnian) derives from

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''bahār'' (spring, blossom). It was established in 1900 by Bosniak intellectuals Edhem Mulabdić, Safvet-beg Bašagić, and Osman Nuri Hadžić, assisted financially by

Ademaga Mešić Ademaga Mešić or Adem Aga Mešić (25 March 1868 – 1 July 1945) was a Bosnian politician and military officer who served in the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian ''Schutzkorps'', and later a member of the Ustaše government of the Independent ...

. During the first eight years of existence it was primarily focused on religious and family topics. Magazine published articles on Islamic past and religion, literally works of local authors and translations of Oriental literature. In VII volume it regularly published 4 pages of text in

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, while from the IX volume it was also marked as a Croatian magazine. The magazine was published in

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. In addition to Bašagić and Mulabdić,

Musa Ćazim Ćatić Musa Ćazim Ćatić ( sr-Cyrl, Муса Ћазим Ћатић; 12 March 1878 – 6 April 1915) was a Bosnian poet of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Renaissance at the turn of the 20th century. Life Ćatić completed Sharia Law studies in Zagreb. He w ...

Džemaludin Čaušević Mehmed Džemaludin Effendi, ef. Čaušević (28 December 1870 – 28 March 1938) was a Bosnian Muslim theologian, thinker, educator, reformer, journalist, translator and linguist who served as the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina#List ...

, and Ljudevit Dvorniković also served as editors during the decade that the magazine was published. A 1927 revival, called ''Novi behar'' (New Blossom), by Hamdija Kreševljaković and Husein Dubravić lasted until 1943.

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