Dr. Asim Zubčević is an associate professor at the Department of Islamic Civilization and head of that Department at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences of the University of Sarajevo. He graduated in 1993, master's degree in 1996 and doctorate in 2015 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Leiden. His areas of academic and scientific interest are: private libraries, Bosnian culture, books of the Ottoman period and Bosnian cultural history. language and literature. He is employed in Rijaset of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He knows Arabic, German, writes and speaks English.