Abdullah Polovina was born in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on July 20, 1973. He is the only child of Sahza and the late Ahma.

Before the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he attended Gazi Husrev-beg Medresa to become an Imam, Hatib, and Mualim. He completed and graduated from the medresa in 1992. When the war began, Abdulah ef. Polovina was in Dobrinja, a small neighborhood near the Sarajevo airport.
 

In Dobrinja, he voluntarily joined the Territorial Defense to help defend the area. During his wartime service, he was wounded three times. Toward the end of the war, he married Muallim Hatidza Hanum.
 

After the aggression and war, he dedicated himself to the Islamic Community and was appointed Imam at a mosque in Sarajevo (Džemat Aneks). He served as Imam there for the next five years before moving to the United States, to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, he served for 12 years as Imam of the local Bosniak Islamic Community and Džemat. During his time in Seattle, he also performed the sacred Islamic duty of Hajj.

Currently, Abdulah ef. is the Imam of the Bosniak Džemat and organization in Portland, Oregon. He is the father of five children: Muhamed, Lamija, Ahmed, Mustafa, and Abdulgafar.
 

In the United States, Abdulah ef. earned a degree in Islamic Studies from Cloverdale College in Indiana, followed by a degree in Comparative Religions from George Washington University in Seattle. In mid-March 2015, he earned a Master’s degree in Theology and Clergy from Seattle University and is now a Master of Science in Transformational Leadership.