In 2012, the Islamic Community elected Kavazović to succeed Mustafa Cerić as the Bosnian Grand Mufti; at the vote in the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, the main mosque of Sarajevo, he received 240 of 382 preferences. In his election program, Kavazović had pushed inter alia for the co-operation with other religious communities and a wider "incorporation of women into the work of the Islamic religious community".
Under an agreement, Kavazović was suggested to also serve as Grand Mufti of Hungary.[4]
He speaks Bosnian, Arabic and English.[5][6][7][8]
Controversies
Kavazović has been attacked and threatened multiple times, together with other Bosnian Muslim officials, in the Bosnian language edition of the ISIS magazine, Rumiyah.[9]
Notes
Michael Martens: Gegen Rache und Küsse: Das neue Oberhaupt der bosnischen Muslime tritt sein Amt an, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 November 2012