HILMO NEIMARLIJA, PhD

Born in Kakanj in 1950. He completed Gazi Husrev-beg Madrasa and Sociology Studies at the Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo. He was granted his master's degree and PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo.

Upon completing his studies, he was appointed teaching assistant in the course of Philosophy at the Faculty of Political Science and, upon the establishment of the Islamic Theological Faculty in 1977, he was appointed teaching assistant/lecturer in the academic disciplines Introduction to Sociology and History of Philosophy. The aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina caused him to leave teaching and to focus on taking on responsibilities in the institutions of the defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and of political and social resistance to the aggression.

He was one of the initiators of restoring the work of the Preporod Cultural Society, and then a member of its Board of Directors. On two occasions he was elected the chairman of the Assembly of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from 1998 to 2010 he worked as a representative in the House of Representatives and a delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the chairman of the Managerial Board of the Faculty of Islamic Sciences, the Popis 2013 Foundation and the Managerial Board of the Council of Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals. He was the editor of Takvim and publications of the Udruženje Ilmijje  (association that gathers imams, mualims, workers employed by the Islamic Community, as well as muderrises and professors of Islamic faculties) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has also been an editor on the editorial board, and editor-in-chief, of the publishing activities of Islamic Community.