Muslim National Organisation
political party
Muslim National Organization (Serbo-Croatian: Muslimanska narodna organizacija, MNO) was the first Bosnian Muslim political party founded on 3 December 1906 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, de jure still part of the Ottoman Empire, but de facto under occupation by Austria-Hungary. The founder and first president of MNO was Ali-beg Firdus. The official party newspaper was Musavat (lit. Unity).
History
The movement officially emerged at a meeting in Slavonski Brod on 3 December 1906, gathering the main supporters of religious and educational autonomy for Muslims in Austro-Hungarian-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina. A twelve-member executive committee (Egzekutivni odbor) was formed, with each district in Bosnia and Herzegovina selecting two representatives, usually wealthy landowners. Although not a political party in the modern sense, the MNO had a firm organisational structure and a clear political program. On the local level, it was represented by millet committees, while at the state level, it was led by the executive committee. The party was held together more by personal ties among its leaders than by ideological unity.
The MNO demanded religious, waqf-educational (vakufsko-mearif) and political (state-legal) autonomy as its primary goal.
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