Islam in Kosovo, the Glossary
Islam in Kosovo has a long-standing tradition dating back to the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans.[1]
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51 relations: Albanian language, Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, Balkans, Battle of Kosovo, Bektashi Order, Bosniaks, Bosniaks in Kosovo, Byzantine Empire, Catholic Church in Albania, Catholic Church in Kosovo, Christianity in Kosovo, Christianization, Crypto-Christianity, Elections in Kosovo, Ethnic cleansing, Geneva Conventions, Gjakova, Gorani people, Grand Mufti, Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, Imperial Mosque (Pristina), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International propagation of Salafism, Islam, Islamic Community of Kosovo, Jizya, Justice Party (Kosovo), Kosovo War, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Laramans, Madrasa, Obiliq, Ottoman Empire, Peja, Petro-Islam, Pristina, Prizren, Religion in Kosovo, Roman Empire, Secularization, Serbian Orthodox Church, Sinan Pasha Mosque (Prizren), Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Spread of Islam, Sublime Porte, Sufi lodge, Sufism, Tariqa, Turkish people, Turks in Kosovo, ... Expand index (1 more) »
Albanian language
Albanian (endonym: shqip, gjuha shqipe, or arbërisht) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.
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Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo
The Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo (Kuvendi i Republikës së Kosovës; Skupština Republike Kosovo) or the Kuvendi, is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Kosovo that is directly elected by the people every four years.
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Balkans
The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.
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Battle of Kosovo
The Battle of Kosovo took place on 15 June 1389 between an army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and an invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Murad Hüdavendigâr.
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Bektashi Order
The Bektashi Order or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi mystic order originating in the 13th-century Ottoman Empire.
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Bosniaks
The Bosniaks (Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци,; Bošnjak, Bošnjakinja) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry, culture, history and language.
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Bosniaks in Kosovo
Bosniaks in Kosovo are a South Slavic Muslim ethnic group living in Kosovo, numbering 27,553 according to the 2011 census.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Catholic Church in Albania
The Catholic Church in Albania is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
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Catholic Church in Kosovo
The Catholic Church has a population in Kosovo of approximately 65,000 in a region of roughly 2 million people.
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Christianity in Kosovo
Christianity in Kosovo has a long-standing tradition dating to the Roman Empire.
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Christianization
Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity.
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Crypto-Christianity
Crypto-Christianity is the secret adherence to Christianity, while publicly professing to be another faith; people who practice crypto-Christianity are referred to as "crypto-Christians".
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Elections in Kosovo
Parliamentary elections to the Assembly of Kosovo (Kuvendi i Kosovës, Serbian Cyrillic: Скупштина Косова, transliterated Skupstina Kosova) have been held four times since 1999 with the latest in December 2010.
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Ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous.
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Geneva Conventions
language.
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Gjakova
Gjakova or Đakovica is the seventh largest city of Kosovo and seat of Gjakova Municipality and Gjakova District.
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Gorani people
The Gorani or Goranci, are a Slavic Muslim ethnic group inhabiting the Gora region—the triangle between Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia.
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Grand Mufti
The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state.
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Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907
The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences at The Hague in the Netherlands.
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Imperial Mosque (Pristina)
The Imperial Mosque, also known as King's Mosque, is an Ottoman mosque located in Pristina, Kosovo.
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International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators.
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International propagation of Salafism
Starting in the mid-1970s and 1980s (and appearing to diminish after 2017), Salafism and Wahhabism — along with other Sunni interpretations of Islam favored by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies — achieved a "preeminent position of strength in the global expression of Islam." The impetus for the international propagation of these interpretations of Islam through the Muslim world was, according to political scientist Alex Alexiev, "the largest worldwide propaganda campaign ever mounted", David A. Islam in Kosovo and international propagation of Salafism are Sunni Islam.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
The Islamic Community of Kosovo (ICK; Bashkësia Islame e Kosovës), is an independent religious organization of Muslims in Kosovo and the Preševo Valley.
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Jizya
Jizya (jizya), or jizyah, is a tax historically levied on dhimmis, that is, protected non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law.
Justice Party (Kosovo)
The Justice Party is a centre-right conservative political party in Kosovo.
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Kosovo War
The Kosovo War (Lufta e Kosovës; Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 168921 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet.
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Laramans
The term Laraman in Albanian refers to crypto-Christians who adhered to Islam officially but continued to practice Christianity within the household during the Ottoman era.
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Madrasa
Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.
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Obiliq
Obiliq is a town and municipality in Kosovo.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Peja
Peja is the fourth most populous city in Kosovo and serves as the seat of the Peja Municipality and the District of Peja.
Petro-Islam
Petro-Islam is a neologism used to refer to the international propagation of the extremist and fundamentalist interpretations of Sunni Islam derived from the doctrines of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a Sunni Muslim preacher, scholar, reformer and theologian from Uyaynah in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, eponym of the Islamic revivalist movement known as Wahhabism.
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Pristina
Pristina, Prishtina or Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo.
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Prizren
Prizren (Prizreni; Призрен) is the second most populous city and municipality of Kosovo and seat of the eponymous municipality and district.
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Religion in Kosovo
Religion in Kosovo is separated from the state.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Secularization
In sociology, secularization (secularisation) is a multilayered concept that generally denotes "a transition from a religious to a more worldly level." There are many types of secularization and most do not lead to atheism, irreligion, nor are they automatically antithetical to religion.
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Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church (Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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Sinan Pasha Mosque (Prizren)
The Sinan Pasha Mosque (Xhamia e Sinan Pashës; Синан пашина Џамија / Sinan pašina džamija; Sinan Paşa Camii) is an Ottoman mosque in the city of Prizren, Kosovo.
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The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe.
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Spread of Islam
The spread of Islam spans almost 1,400 years.
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Sublime Porte
The Sublime Porte, also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte (Bāb-ı Ālī or Babıali, from gate and عالي), was a synecdoche or metaphor used to refer collectively to the central government of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.
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Sufi lodge
A Sufi lodge is a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood or tariqa and is a place for spiritual practice and religious education.
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Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism. Islam in Kosovo and Sufism are Sunni Islam.
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Tariqa
A tariqa is a religious order of Sufism, or specifically a concept for the mystical teaching and spiritual practices of such an order with the aim of seeking, which translates as "ultimate truth".
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Turkish people
Turkish people or Turks (Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus.
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Turks in Kosovo
Turks in Kosovo (Turqit në Kosovë), also known as Kosovo Turks or Kosovan Turks (Kosova Türkleri, Turqit Kosovar), are the ethnic Turks who constitute a minority group in Kosovo.
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War crime
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Kosovo
Also known as History of Islam in Kosovo, Kosovar Muslims, Political aspects of Islam in Kosovo.
, War crime.