Isaković was also notable for his works treating Bosnian literary history; asserting the special character and identity of Bosniaks.
Isaković was born to a Bosniak family in Stolac in January 1932, while modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina was a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
[2] He was raised a Muslim and, as a child, lived in Bitunja, a village located in his birth city.
Isaković's Pearls, it was said, was a pioneering project in establishing the delicate ethnic Bosniak literature.
[6][7] Isaković was a friend of the first Bosnian president, Alija Izetbegović, painter Mersad Berber and he knew the Yugoslavia prime minister Branko Mikulić.