Religious and political leader
Mustafa Ruhi Efendi (1800 - 1893, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire) was a shaikh of the Naqshbandi tariqah and political leader in the Balkans during the Ottoman period.[1] Born in an Albanian family on the Aegean island Imbros (present-day Gökçeada in Turkey), he moved as a young man at the Vilayet of Kosovo to his family's ancestral hometown in the city of Kalkandelen (present-day Tetovo in North Macedonia). He was one of the participants of the League of Prizren which established the basis of Albanian nationalism, and was elected "President of the Central Committee of the League".[1][2][3][4]
He was buried in the courtyard of the Yahya Efendi mausoleum in the Yıldız Palace park in Istanbul.
References
- ^ a b Nathalie Clayer (2006-12-01). Aux origines du nationalisme albanais: la naissance d'une nation. Recherches internationales (in French). Karthala. pp. 257, 654, 631. ISBN 978-2845868168. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ The Consolidation of Albanian Nationalism The League of Prizren 1878-1881, by Nevila Pahumi
- ^ Peter R. Prifti (2002), Land of Albanians: a crossroad of pain and pride, Tirana: Horizont, p. 47, ISBN 9789992774366, OCLC 52631278, retrieved 2013-11-12
- ^ Bardhosh Gaçe (1999-01-01), Lëvizja kombëtare në Vlorë, 1878-1912 [National Movement in Valona, 1878-1912] (in Albanian), vol. 1, Valona, Albania: Toena, p. 130, ISBN 9789992711859, OCLC 43851650, retrieved 2013-11-12
