His literally work introduced region of Sandžak and its rural Bosniak population into Yugoslav literature.

[6] During the Second World War, Sijarić worked as a clerk in the courts in Mostar, Bosanska Gradiška, Banja Luka and Sarajevo, cooperating all the time with the Unitary National Liberation Front of Yugoslavia.

[10] Not long before his death, Sijarić wrote a poem called Znam (I Know), which appears to show him foreshadowing his own death: Znam da se u ovu kasnu jesen U prekasnu jesen na Šipovicama šipci crvene.

Da hoće vjetar bar malo – bar malo, njihove boje nanijeti na mene, na ruke, na lice – jer vidim da se ove jeseni posljednji put za mene crvene šipci iz Šipovica I know that in this late autumn in this very late autumn in Šipovica, the rose hips redden If only the wind would – even a little Spread their colors over me on my hands, on my face – For I see that this autumn the rose hips in Šipovica will redden for me for the last time Three schools bear the name of Ćamil Sijarić, in Sarajevo, Novi Pazar, and Nemila.

Several cities—including Brčko, Novi Pazar, Podgorica, Tutin, and Nova Varoš—have streets named for Sijarić.