Hazim Šabanović (Poriječani, Visoko, 11 January 1916 – Istanbul, 22 March 1971) was a Yugoslav historian, orientalist, and Ottomanist.
He died in Istanbul, where he was searching for new data in libraries and archives for what would become a seminal work, the Literature of Bosnian Muslims in Oriental Languages, published posthumously in 1973.
At the end of World War II, in 1945, he served as a secretary of the Committee "for assistance to refugees from Southeastern Bosnia and Sandžak".
In the fall of 1953, he was assigned to work at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, where he taught Turkish language and diplomacy to history students until 1957.
Šabanović assumed the position of Library administrator on 17 October 1948, and remained closely affiliated to it until the end of his life.
In a series of his notable works, one of the most valuable is the Putopis Evlije Čelebije (Travelogue of Evliya Çelebi) (excerpts about Yugoslav countries).
The work is based on a very large number of first-class sources and extensive literature and as such represents a significant contribution to science, and especially to the knowledge of Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
[4] He died in Istanbul in 1971, while researching in city's libraries and archives for what will become a seminal work, the Literature of Bosnian Muslims in Oriental Languages, published posthumously in 1973 in Sarajevo.