#dibra

Born in Dibra in 1867 he studied theology and Islamic culture and became Myfti of Dibra country and late President of the Congress of Dibra up to 1912 when was voted as President of the first Albanian Senate, the second office of the new born country. He was the one to issue the fatwa which declared not haram the use of a living being in the flag. His political work was focused on the spreding of schooling and encouragement of intellectual studies, while also fostering new industrial plans. 

He decided upon leaving his political role in the 20′s, when the Sunni Albanian Community declared itself indipendent from the Turkish one and elected Haxhi Vehbi as Great Myfti of Albania. However, he decided upon continuing his work to improve scholarization, deciding upon the use of Albanian as the first language of the rites and founding the first Islamic pubblication of the country, Zani i Nalte, which dealt with intellectual issues not always related to religion. While getting older he become more and more detached from pubblic life and performing his duty as Imam of the Suleyman Mosque of Tirana, the main mosque of the city, but he never abandoned the habit of walking every afternoon through the boulevards of Tirana, arm in arm with one of his best friends, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church, Vissarion Xhuvani.

In 1935 he performed the Hajj, the pilgrimage which is one of the duties of any Muslim, and was given the privilege to give the last khutba (the sermon which follow the prayer) of the event at Makkah. 

His funeral cerimony in 1937 was huge, the procession blocking the city. The right to give the funeral speech was given to the Primate Vissarion Xhuvani himself, and this (a priest giving the speach for an imam funeral) is maybe an unicum for the time, speaking volumes about the social situation and religious tolerance of the Country.

Dances from Dibra, Albania

Policia ka referuar materialet në SPAK për veprën penale “Pengimi i subjekteve zgjedhore” ndaj Kalosh Murrës. Kjo pason sherrin e ndodhur në Ostren mes kandidatit të Partisë Demokratike për qarkun e Dibrës, Xhelal Mziu, nipit të tij Elson Mziu dhe zyrtarit të Bashkisë Bulqizë, Kalosh Murra. Sipas kallëzimit të bërë nga kandidati i PD-së, gjatë një takimi elektoral të zhvilluar nga Partia…