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Albanians In Syria
Albanians in Syria () constitute a community of about 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants, – ''shqiptarja.com'' primarily in the cities of , , and . Albanians in are known as ('' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albanian Language
Albanian (Endonym and exonym, endonym: , , or ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid, Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan languages, Paleo-Balkan group. It is the native language of the Albanian people. Standard Albanian is the official language of Albania and Kosovo, and a co-official language in North Macedonia and Montenegro, where it is the primary language of significant Albanian minority communities. Albanian is recognized as a minority language in Italy, Croatia, Romania, and Serbia. It is also spoken in Greece and by the Albanian diaspora, which is generally concentrated in the Americas, Europe and Oceania. Albanian is estimated to have as many as 7.5 million native speakers. Albanian and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region. Albanian in antiquity is often thought to have been an Illyrian language for ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbs
The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Serbia, culture, History of Serbia, history, and Serbian language, language. They primarily live in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro as well as in North Macedonia, Slovenia, Germany and Austria. They also constitute a significant diaspora with several communities across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. The Serbs share many cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language, Serbian language (a standardized version of Serbo-Croatian) is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro. Ethnology The identity of Serbs is rooted in Eastern Orthodoxy and traditions. In the 19th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albanians In Egypt
The Albanians, Albanian community in Egypt began with government officials and military personnel appointed in Ottoman Egypt. A substantial community would grow up later by soldiers and mercenaries who settled in the second half of the 18th century and made a name for themselves in the Ottoman struggle to expel French troops in 1798–1801. Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Mehmet Ali or Muhammad Ali, an Albanian, would later found the Khedivate of Egypt which lasted there until 1952. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many other Albanians settled into Egypt for economical and political reasons. However, in later years the activities of the fedayeen, Muslim Brotherhood, as well as the greater Egyptian Revolution of 1952 resulted in the Albanian community in Egypt largely abandoning the country and emigrating to Western countries. History Ottoman Era In 1517, Egypt became a province of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans appointed a regional governor in Cairo, with the title of ''"beylerbey"' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Mufaku Al Arnaut
Muhammad Mufaku al-Arnaut (; born 1952) is a Kosovar Albanian Syrian and retired professor of Middle East studies. Muhammad Mufaku was born (1952) in Damascus, Second Syrian Republic, Syria. He graduated from Damascus University with a degree in Arabic language and literature. Mufaku completed his master's and doctorate degrees in comparative literature and history at University of Pristina (1969–99), Pristina University, Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, Kosovo. Later Mufaku taught at Pristina University and was based in its Department of Oriental Studies until 1987 when he was expelled by the Milošević government of Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavian Serbia. In Jordan he became a professor of modern history and taught in a number of its universities like at Yarmouk University in Irbid and later was a lecturer at Al al-Bayt University in Mafrak until his retirement in 2018. During that time, Mufaku became the director of the House of Wisdom Institute, was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahbi Sulayman Ghawji
Hajji Vehbi Sulejman Gavoçi (, May 17, 1923 – July 19, 2013) was an Albanian Muslim scholar from Shkodër. He was born on May 17, 1923, in the Garuc neighborhood of Shkodër. In June 1937, he emigrated to Damascus, Syria, with his namesake father and his brother Sheikh Muhamed. At the age of thirteen, Vehbi Sulejman Gavoçi enrolled at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. After ten years in Egypt, where he graduated from the Al-Azhar Faculty of ''Sharia'' and two years of secular law school, he returned to Syria in 1947. Gavoçi taught from 1949 to 1951 at a girls’ school in Aleppo. He moved on to Damascus, teaching from 1951 to 1965 in various schools while lecturing at the Teacher College and Damascus University. After the death of his father in 1958, Vehbi replaced him as imam at the Arnaut (Albanian) Mosque built by his father in Damascus. Preaching for three years there, he also sermonized at Esh-Shemsije, Randa, and Lala Basha Mosques. In 1966, he left Syria for a post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuaib Al Arna'ut
The Late Al Arnaout. Shuaib ibn Muharram al-Albani al-Arnauti (in ) (1928-2016) was a well known Syrian scholar of Hadith in the Islamic World. He was famous for his works on Hadith Methodology, Manuscript Investigation and Research and Hadith Criticism. His Kunya is Abu Usamah. Biography He was born in Damascus, Syria in the year 1928. His family were originally Muslim Albanians from Shkodër in North Albania, which spoke in the Gheg dialect of the Albanian language. His family immigrated to Syria before his birth, in 1926 in search of a better life. Al Arnaout followed the Hanafi school of Jurisprudence. Although he is most well known for his work on Hadith Literature, Al Arnaout was a strong proponent of Sunni Orthodoxy and following the four Madhhabs. He died in October 27, 2016. Works His most notable work was as chief editor of a 45 volume work on the Musnad of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal in which he investigated various manuscripts, cross-referenced with other Hadith books and cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiqh
''Fiqh'' (; ) is the term for Islamic jurisprudence.Fiqh Encyclopædia Britannica ''Fiqh'' is often described as the style of human understanding, research and practices of the sharia; that is, human understanding of the divine Islamic law as revealed in the Quran and the sunnah (the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his companions). Fiqh expands and develops Shariah through interpretation (''ijtihad'') of the Quran and ''Sunnah'' by Islamic jurists (''ulama'') and is implemented by the rulings (''fatwa'') of jurists on questions presented to them. Thus, whereas ''sharia'' is considered immutable and infallible by Muslims, ''fiqh'' is considered fallible and changeable. ''Fiqh'' deals with the observance of rituals, morals and social legislation in Islam as well as econo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ( companions in Sunni Islam, Ahl al-Bayt in Shiite Islam). Each hadith is associated with a chain of narrators ()—a lineage of people who reportedly heard and repeated the hadith from which the source of the hadith can be traced. The authentication of hadith became a significant discipline, focusing on the ''isnad'' (chain of narrators) and '' matn'' (main text of the report). This process aimed to address contradictions and questionable statements within certain narrations. Beginning one or two centuries after Muhammad's death, Islamic scholars, known as muhaddiths, compiled hadith into distinct collections that survive in the historical works of writers from the second and third centuries of the Muslim era ( 700−1000 CE). For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Jashari
Abdul Samrez Jashari (, ; born 25 September 1976), also known by his ''nom de guerre'' Abu Qatada al-Albani (), is a Macedonian Albanian militant who is the leader of Xhemati Alban, an Albanian Islamist armed group allied with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which is active in the Syrian civil war. Prior to 2017, Jashari and Xhemati Alban were allied to HTS's predecessor the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front. Following the fall of the Assad regime and the establishment of the Syrian transitional government, Jashari was promoted to the rank of colonel in the new Syrian Army. Jashari was designated a terrorist by the United States Treasury Department in 2016 for his affiliation with al-Nusra. See also * Albanians in Syria Albanians in Syria () constitute a community of about 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kara Murat Pasha
Kara Murat Pasha, or Kara Dev Murad Pasha, lit. ''Courageous Giant Murat Pasha'' in Ottoman Turkish; (1595 – 1655), was an Ottoman Albanian statesman and military officer. He served as Kapudan Pasha and twice as Grand Vizier. His epithet ''Kara'' ("black") refers to his courage and '' Dev'' ("giant") to his physical size. Early years Murat was of Albanian origin. He distinguished himself in the early phases of Cretan War between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. He was assigned to various posts in the Janissary corps (the professional regiments that formed the core of the Ottoman army), and in 1648, during the enthronement of Mehmed IV, he was promoted to be commander of the Janissary corps ().Ayhan Buz:Osmanlı Sadrazamları, Neden Kitap, istanbul, 2009, pp105-106 When the Ottoman Navy was defeated by the Venetians in the Battle of Focchies on 12 May 1649, the Grand Vizier Sofu Mehmed Pasha was blamed for the defeat, and he was replaced by Kara Murat Pash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans, Balkan states in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan states of Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg), Greece, Kingdom of Serbia, Serbia, Kingdom of Montenegro, Montenegro and Kingdom of Bulgaria, Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defeated it, in the process stripping the Ottomans of their European provinces, leaving only East Thrace, Eastern Thrace under Ottoman control. In the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria fought against the other four combatants of the first war. It also faced an attack from Kingdom of Romania, Romania from the north. The Ottoman Empire lost the bulk of its territory in Europe. Although not involved as a combatant, Austria-Hungary became relatively weaker as a much enlarged Serbia pushed for union of the South Slavs, Slavic peoples. The war set the stage for the July Crisis, July crisis of 1914 and as a prelude to the First World War. By the early 20th century, Bul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balkan Egyptians
The Ashkali ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Ашкалије, Aškalije, separator=" / ", link=no), otherwise known as Hashkali ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Хашкалије, Haškalije, separator=" / ", link=no) and/or Balkan Egyptians ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Балкански Египћани, Balkanski Egipćani, separator=" / "; ; ), are Albanian-speaking Muslim ethnic cultural minorities (recognized communities), which mainly inhabit Kosovo and southern Serbia, as well as Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia. Prior to the Kosovo War of 1999, the Balkan Egyptians or Ashkali people registered themselves as Albanians. While some Ashkali speak Romani, Egyptians do not. The two groups are not clearly delineated. Though they differ linguistically and culturally from the Roma, they have often been grouped together under the acronym RAE (Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptians). History of the Balkan Egyptians The origins of the Balkan Egyptians are obscure, but some Balkan historians trace the origin of Balkan Egypti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
