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Bosnian Salafist movement leader (1967–2007)

Jusuf Barčić (25 September 1967 – 30 March 2007) was a Bosnian Salafist leader and the founder of the Salafist movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina whose leadership shaped the Bosnian Salafist community.

Early life

Barčić was born in 1967 in the hamlet of Barčići in Petrovice, Kalesija. He studied at the Gazi Husrev Bey's Madrasa, where from 1984 to 1987 he memorised Qur'an and became a hafiz.

Barčić left Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War and studied Islamic studies in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

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He studied under the mentorship of Al-Albani, one of the best-known Salafist authorities. While a student, Barčić did a final proofreading of the 1991 edition of Besim Korkut's Bosnian translation of the Qur'an. The publishing of the translation of the Qur'an was ordered by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and was financed by the Ministry of Hajj and Waqif of Saudi Arabia.

During the war in the 1990s, Barčić