He, then, graduated in 1942 at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, where he received his doctorate in 1965, with the thesis Legal position of Sarajevo in the Ottoman Empire until 1850.
He has been writing since his early youth, and already at the age of 16, he published his first work in Novi Behar about Alija Đerzelez epic folk songs.
During the WWII he wrote for Hrvatska enciklopedija (1941–42, 1945), Nova uzdanica calendar, El Hidaje, Zagreb's Croatian people, Zagreb's Croatian daily, Hrvatsko kolo, Sarajevo's Osvit, Spremnosti, Muslim yearbook Hrvat, a post-war encyclopedia of Yugoslavia, various Muslim magazines, but also Catholic (Dobri Pastir, Croatica Christiana Periodica) ones too.
From 1951 until 1955, he worked in the District Court and the State Secretariat for Judicial Administration of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, and also as a judge in Mostar, Brčko and Gradačac.
Between 1967 and 1968 he worked at the city's Institute for the Protection and Maintenance of Cultural Monuments in Sarajevo and from 1968 until his retirement in 1978 at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was first elected senior research associate and secretary of the Commission for the History of the Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 1976 scientific advisor.