If one wanted to provide a short definition of the history of Bosniaks, he could say that it has practically been an incessant struggle for self-preservation on their own soil, in a hostile surrounding and that during this struggle, despite all the wars and suffering, Bosnian Muslim folk genius has created enviable works, in the field of both tangible and spiritual culture.

Relatively little is known about Dževad Sulejmanpašić's life. It is assumed that he was born in the village of Vesela near Bugojno in 1893, that he died in 1976 and that he was buried in the family tomb on Mali Lošinj.

Ahmed Sudi Bošnjak lived in the 16th century. He was born in the village of Sudići near Čajniče. He received education in one of Sarajevo madrasas, and then went to Istanbul.

Today, the name of Selman Selmanagić (Srebrenica, 1905 – Berlin, 1986), an architect, urban planner, designer and university professor is inevitable part of the European history of modern architecture, design and protection of building heritage.

Hasan Kafi Pruščak (1544–1615) is the most fruitful Bosniak writer in the field of traditional Islamic studies and disciplines.

Ali Dede Bošnjak (1540–1598), or Ali Dede al-Bosnawi, one of the best-known Bosniak authors, Sufis, mystics, Theosophists, teachers, thinkers and poets of the 16th century.

A special stamp on the Ottoman art of the 16th century was left by painters of miniatures originating from Bosnia.

Ahmed Vahdeti (k.s.) was born at the town of Dobrun in Eastern Bosnia near Višegrad, where he seems to have spent a significant part of his life, since in several manuscripts the word Dobruni (Dobrunjanin) is written after his name, and he is the only Dobrunjanin (resident of Dobrun) whose name is mentioned in Islamic literature.

Writing about this great Bosniak, Nusret Čolo says: “Abdullah b. Muhammed el-Bosnevi (Bošnjak), known under pen names Šarihul-fusus (Commentator of Fusus), Abdi and Abdullah Bosnevi was a mutesavvif, alim, poet of the 17th century.

While discussing a ghazal by shaykh Husein Lamekani (k.s., passed away in 1034 Hijri year/1625 A.D.) written in Persian, Slobodan Ilić writes that “in the manuscript of a magmua from the 17th century which is held at the Gazi Husrev-beg Library in Sarajevo, call number 3049, there are over seventy poems, mostly ghazals, which were written by Husein Lamekani” and that he is “besides the commentator of Ibn al-Arabi’s Pearls of Wisdom, Abdullah Bošnjak, our most significant representative of the tasawwuf poetic expression”.

Bahrija Nuri Hadžić was born in 1904, as one of four daughters of Osman Nuri Hadžić, a professor of Sharia and a doctor of secular law, which he studied in Zagreb and Vienna, a member of the State Council of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, an editor of journal Behar and a fiction writer.

In today's Palestine we have, besides a collective waqf, waqf of seven Bosniaks from the Ottoman period: Deli Husrev-pasha Sokolović, Damat Rustem-pasha Opuković, Behram-pasha Sokolović, Javuz Ali-pasha Malkoč the Bosniak, Ahmed-pasha Rizvanović Sokolović, Musa¬-pasha Rizvanović Sokolović, Jazzar Ahmed-pasha the Bosniak.

Mustafa Jujo bin Jusuf bin Murad Ejjubi-zade Mostari Bosnevi – Mustafa Ejubović is one of the most prominent Bosniak writers in Arabic. He was born in Mostar in 1651. In 1677 he went to Istanbul for education purposes, to the famous Sahn-i Seman University, which he completed four years later.

Midhat Begić was born in Koraj, on 12 August 1911, in a renowned family of imams, Begić, and one of the most numerous families in Koraj.

Muhamed Hadžijahić is labeled as a historian, bibliographer, chronicler and sociologist.

Nerkez Smailagić is a personality who holds an outstanding place in Bosniak, Bosnian and Herzegovinian, Croatian and Yugoslav spiritual and historical landscapes of the second half of the 19th century.

If there is a person who can truly symbolize and authentically represent the social class of beys in Bosnia, both in its positive and negative sociopolitical dimension, it would without any doubt be Safvet-bey Bašagić.