Avdic, Camil Jusuf

Imam Camil Avdic (1914-1979) was a Bosnian born leader of the Bosnian-American Islamic community in Chicago. He was trained at the renowned Ghazi Husref Beg Madressa in Sarajevo, Bosnia and at Cairo's Al-Azhar University. He published articles on Bosnian and Islamic history in Bosnian and English language Islamic periodicals. His non-journalistic work includes the books: Bosnia in Historic Perspective (this text), Three Years of Egyptian History (on Napoleon's conquest of Egypt), the Outline of Islam, and A Survey of Islamic Doctrines.