The movement officially emerged at a meeting in
Slavonski Brod on 3 December 1906, gathering the main supporters of religious and educational autonomy for Muslims in
Austro-Hungarian-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina. A twelve-member executive committee (
Egzekutivni odbor) was formed, with each district in Bosnia and Herzegovina selecting two representatives, usually wealthy landowners. Although not a political party in the modern sense, the MNO had a firm organisational structure and a clear political program. On the local level, it was represented by
millet committees, while at the state level, it was led by the executive committee. The party was held together more by personal ties among its leaders than by ideological unity. The MNO demanded religious, waqf-educational (
vakufsko-mearif) and political (state-legal) autonomy as its primary goal. Following the achievement of autonomy in
1909, its focus shifted to agrarian reform. The agrarian program advocated for the emancipation of peasants from feudal obligations, transforming them into tenant farmers or wage labourers on large estates. In 1911, the Muslim National Organisation merged with its political rival, the Muslim Independent Party, to form the United Muslim Organisation (
Ujedinjena muslimanska organizacija, UMO). However, a faction of MNO members rejected the merger and continued the party’s activities independently. == 1910 Elections to the Bosnian Diet ==