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Abdulah "Avdo" Sumbul (27 April 1884 — 8 February 1915) was Serb Muslims literature journal editor and national activist in Austrian annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sumbul belonged to a group of Serb Muslims who were targeted as enemies by Austria Hungary and persecuted because of their ethnicity. He died in Austro-Hungarian concentration camp in Arad.
Sumbul was one of the founders of Muslim Sokol movement in Sarajevo. He was member of Young Bosnia. In 1912, after the death of Osman Đikić, the editing of Gajret was entrusted to Avdo Sumbul. In 1914 he was one of the editors of the magazine Vakat, published in Sarajevo.
Vladimir Ćorović emphasize that government of Austria-Hungary perceived and treated Muslims who self-declared themselves as Serbs as enemies of the interest of their state and organized their systematic persecution. Because of his anti-Austrian and pro-Serbian activities, Sumbul was interned to concentration camp in Arad.: "На стотине Срба убијено је без судске пресуде, на хиљаде одведено у концентрационе логоре у Арад, Нежидер. Добој итд.":"и ово стварање концентрационих логора била прва таква мера и установа у ... Кроз логор Арад од августа 1914. прошло је више од 45.000 ухапшених, највише жена и деце.": "У Петроварадину, Араду и Нежидеру отворени су концентрациони логори, у које су послате на хиљаде Срба." where he soon died.
A street in Sarajevo bears Sumbul's name in his honor.
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