Britanci i Hadži Lojo (Funkcija Hadži Loje u britanskoj politici dokazivanja tolerancije u Bosni) / The British and Hajji Loyo (The Function of Hajji Loyo in the British Policy of Proving Tolerance in Bosnia)

The consuls and other officials of the British Consulate in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the beginning of its work in 1857 until the end of the Eastern crisis of 1875-1878, were of the opinion that the Ottoman reforms could bring legal and social equality between Christians and Muslims. According to their conviction, the inherited tolerance in Bosnia was a good basis for progress in this direction. Cases of intolerance and violence committed by Bosnian Muslims against Christians were attributed to fanatical individuals. This paper shows how the British consulate in Bosnia had been using Salih Vilajetović, better known as Hajji Loyo, proving that individual cases of intolerance and violence against Christians are the exception, not the paradigm, in Muslim-Christian relations in Bosnia.