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From 1389 until 1912, Kosovo was officially governed by the Muslim Ottoman Empire and a high level of Islamization occurred among Catholic and Orthodox Albanians, mainly due to Sufi orders and socio-political opportunism. Both Christian and Muslim Albanians intermarried and some lived as "Laramans", also known as Crypto-Christians. [2]
The vast majority of Kosovo Albanians are Sunni Muslims. There are also Catholic Albanian communities estimated between 60,000 to 65,000 in Kosovo, [67] [68] concentrated in Gjakova, Prizren, Klina and a few villages near Peja and Viti. Converting to Christianity is growing among Kosovo Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. [69] [70]
The Islamic Community of Kosovo (ICK; Albanian: Bashkësia Islame e Kosovës), is an independent religious organization of Muslims in Kosovo and the Preševo Valley. The community's headquarters are located in Pristina and their current leader, the Grand Mufti (Albanian: Kryemyftiu), is Naim Tërnava.
The pace of conversions to Islam only increased significantly in the second half of the sixteenth century, possibly because converts thus became exempt from the cizje, a tax levied only on non-Muslims. [16] By 1634, the majority of Kosovo Albanians had converted to Islam, although a minority remained Catholic.
[47] [10] Almost all Muslims in Kosovo are Sunni. Sufism is the main form of Islam practised. [47] Dervishes are shunned by the official government-supported Islam. [47] The Serb population is largely Serbian Orthodox. The Catholic Albanian communities are mostly concentrated in Gjakova, Prizren, Klina and a few villages near Peć and Vitina ...
In 2016, he completed his doctoral studies at the International University of Novi Pazar, researching Sharia courts and muftiates in Kosovo between World War I and World War II (1918–1941). Between 1997 and 1999, Sinani lectured on Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and the Arabic language at the "Haxhi Sheh Shamia" madrasa in Shkodër, Albania.
Kosovo school libraries were destroyed during the war. [7] In 1999, certain archives and collections were also removed from Kosovo into Serbia, such as the archive of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of Kosovo from the organisation's building in Pristina by employees belonging to the Yugoslav Ministry of Interior.
Muslim Albanians formed the majority of the population in Kosovo vilayet that included an important part of the urban-professional and landowning classes of major towns., [61] while Serbs were a majority in Eastern Kosovo, with a sizable Bulgarian minority in the south as well. [62]