The Islamic Declaration (Bosnian: Islamska deklaracija) was written by Alija Izetbegović (1925–2003). Originally published in 1969–70, and republished in 1990 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia, it presents his views on Islam and modernization. He was an ideological pan-Islamist, who participated in the Mladi Muslimani (Young Muslims) organization between 1941 and 1947, before the Tito government declared the organization illegal. The book was later used against him and other pan-Islamists in a trial in Sarajevo in 1983, which resulted in his condemnation to 13 years of penal servitude for an "attack against socialism [and] willingness to build an Islamic State in Bosnia".