Abdulah "Avdo" Sumbul (27 April 1884 — 8 February 1915)[2] was Serb Muslim[3][4] literature journal editor and national activist in Austrian annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sumbul belonged to a group of Serb Muslims who were targeted as enemies by Austria Hungary and persecuted because of their ethnicity. He died in Austro-Hungarian concentration camp in Arad.
Biography
Sumbul and his family that included his sister, for certain period of time lived in the Sarajevo suburb known as Kovači.[5]
Sumbul was one of the founders of Muslim Sokol movement in Sarajevo.[6] He was member of Young Bosnia.[7] In 1912, after the death of Osman Đikić, the editing of Gajret was entrusted to Avdo Sumbul.[8] In 1914 he was one of the editors of the magazine Vakat, published in Sarajevo.[9]
Vladimir Ćorović emphasize that government of Austria-Hungary perceived and treated Muslims who self-declared themselves as Serbs as enemies of the interest of their state and organized their systematic persecution.[10] Because of his anti-Austrian and pro-Serbian activities, Sumbul was interned to concentration camp in Arad.[11][12][13] where he soon died.[14]
Legacy
Sumbul's remains were transferred to Sarajevo where his grave is today, in the courtyard of Ali Pasha Mosque.[15] In 1934, based on the order of Yugoslav king Alexander I of Yugoslavia, a turbe mausoleum was built in honor of Avdo Sumbul and Behdžed Mutavelić.[16] This mausoleums are part of symbolic unity with Chapel of Vidovdan's martyrs on Koševo Christian Orthodox cemetery.[17]
A street in Sarajevo bears Sumbul's name in his honor.[18]
^Мастиловић, Драга (30 November 2017). "Злочини над Србима у Босни и Херцеговини 1914. године". jadovno.com (in Serbian). Удружење грађана „Јадовно 1941.“. Retrieved 9 February 2019. Авдо Сумбул, секретар „Гајрета" и један од истакнутих Срба муслимана
^Jergović, Miljenko (5 January 2015). "Ulica Avde Sumbula". Radio Sarajevo. Radio Sarajevo. Retrieved 17 February 2019. Obojica su bili aktivisti Gajreta, zaneseni srpskim pijemontizmom, mladobosanci i čisti idealisti
^književnost, Institut za jezik i književnost u Sarajevu. Odjeljenje za (1974). Godišnjak Odjeljenja za književnost. Institut za jezik i književnost u Sarajevu. p. 101.
^Pregled. Nova tiskara Vrček i dr. 1933. p. 297. »Нови Ваката и Вакат", излазили су у Сарајеву, оба латиницом, у фолио-формату. ... широких маса Уређицати су га Едхем Мулабдић. Осман Тикић и Авдо Сумбул.
^(Avramov 1992, p. 58): "На стотине Срба убијено је без судске пресуде, на хиљаде одведено у концентрационе логоре у Арад, Нежидер. Добој итд."
^(Ekmečić 2007, p. 345):"и ово стварање концентрационих логора била прва таква мера и установа у ... Кроз логор Арад од августа 1914. прошло је више од 45.000 ухапшених, највише жена и деце."
^(Dedijer 1966, p. 584): "У Петроварадину, Араду и Нежидеру отворени су концентрациони логори, у које су послате на хиљаде Срба."
^Sarajevu, Gazi Husrevbegova biblioteka u (2001). Anali Gazi Husrev-begove bibliotheke. Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka. p. 292. Glavni urednik svih brojeva Gajreta u 1913. godini bio je Avdo Sumbul, koji je zbog svoga antiaustrijskog djelovanja i simpatija prema Srbima bio 1914. interniran u Arad, gdje je u tamošnjem zatvoru ubrzo umro.
^(Maksimović 1977, p. 229): "Гроб Авде Сумбула је сада насред Сарајева, код Али-пашине џамије. "
^Jergović, Miljenko (5 January 2015). "Ulica Avde Sumbula". Radio Sarajevo. Radio Sarajevo. Retrieved 17 February 2019. Obojica su bili aktivisti Gajreta, zaneseni srpskim pijemontizmom, mladobosanci i čisti idealisti
^Jergović, Miljenko (5 January 2015). "Ulica Avde Sumbula". Radio Sarajevo. Radio Sarajevo. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
