Home; Religion; the explainer Inside Albania's planned Muslim microstate. Proposal for 'Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order', a Vatican-style enclave, has sparked confusion, praise and heated debate ...

His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania’s capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave controlling territory about the size of five New York City blocks, and it will allow alcohol ...

While many Muslim-majority countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq have been making news for introducing regressive laws and customs, Albania is making waves for the opposite reason. Prime ...

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On her part, Nora Zakay, an Albanian young woman, adds, "Muslims constitute 87% of the population of Albania. They are in a dire need to the support of their Muslim brothers since no Muslim delegation ...

These were fights not between Muslims and Christians but between Albanians and Serbs—and though, again, most Albanians are Muslim and all Serbs are Orthodox Christian, the distinction is crucial.

TIRANA: Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim microstate within its borders run by a Sufi sect known for promoting “religious harmony and dialogue”, said Prime Minister Edi Rama.

09/24/2024 September 24, 2024. Albanian PM Edi Rama says he wants to establish a sovereign microstate for an Islamic Sufi order, the Shia Bektashi Muslims in Tirana.

A new generation of Albanians seeks to commemorate the expulsion and killing of Muslim Albanians from Greece ... forces killed at least 2,877 Albanian Chams, 475 women were raped and more than ...

But for Alba and Edlira, it was a real expression of love, a cry for equality and, as far as they know, the first wedding of its kind in the Muslim-majority Balkan country. In Albania, two women ...

Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana. At the UN General Assembly last week, Prime Minister Edi Rama said the ...

Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim microstate within its borders run by a Sufi sect known for promoting "religious harmony and dialogue," Prime Minister Edi Rama announced. The tiny Vatican ...