1 Rivista di Studi Indo-Mediterranei IX (2019) Plurilingual e-journal of literary, religious, historical studies. website: http://kharabat.altervista.org/index.html Rivista collegata al Centro di Ricerca in “Filologia e Medievistica Indo-Mediterranea” (FIMIM) Università di Bologna cod. ANCE (Cineca-Miur) E213139 ISSN 2279-7025 Đenita Haverić Persian Cultural Heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Local Poets Who Wrote in Persian and Most Valuable Persian Manuscripts in Libraries Abstract: This paper reads about the Persian cultural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina which represents an invaluable treasure for studying its cultural and historical tradition. During the Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina (15 th to 19 th century) the Persian language was considered as language of literature, poetry and heritage of Sufism. So, the Persian classics and their works like Rumi ’s Masnavi, Pandnama related to Fariduddin Attar Neishaburi, Sadi’s Gulistan and Bustan, Hafiz’s Divan, Jami’s Baharistan were widespread and popular in this territory and the huge impact of their famous texts is evident on the literary work of Bosniaks 1 in Oriental languages. This study examines the Bosniaks’ Literary Legacy in Persian, so this paper presents the most important writers and poets whose works were written under a powerful influence of the Persian classics. The great interest for the classical Persian works in this area is reflected in the significant number of valuable manuscripts, which have been preserved in libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author lists the most important libraries like Gazi Husrev Beyʼs library, the Library of the Bosniak Institute and the Library of the Institute for Oriental Studies in Sarajevo, and valuable manuscripts of the Persian classical works as well as some dictionaries as part of these libraries. Key words: Persian cultural heritage, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosniaks, literary heritage, Ottoman Empire, Persian classics, manuscripts, libraries 1 Bosniak is the etnic name of Bosnian Muslims.