The Revival of Islam in the Balkans: From Identity to Religiosity. After the end of Communist period religion had a revival in Kosovo. During the time period after World War II, Kosovo was ruled by secular socialist authorities in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Not to mention the fact that accessing oil reserves thousands of feet underwater and an additional thousands of feet under the seafloor takes considerable time and money. They suggest things all the time. The most well-known god was Ra, who was believed to be the sun god and creator of all things. Seeing young people, who make up such a huge part of the world’s population, becoming involved and changing the world together. In 2023, the Government of India estimated the Muslim population at 19.75 to 20 crore, out of 138.8 to 140.0 crore total population, thus constituting around (14.22%-14.28%) of the nation’s population. Islam is India’s second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country’s population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census.

Mythologies are certainly expressions of a particular person or people, but they’re far from only that; there tends to be a spark of something more timeless and universal in them as well. There are also non-Albanian speaking Muslims, who define themselves as Bosniaks, Gorani and Turks. The role was meant to be played by Rue McClanahan, the actress who played the role of Blanche Devereaux, but the parts were switched by the director. Jesus walked on water, toward his apostles who were on a boat during a storm. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? I find no parallel in history for a body of converts and their descendants claiming to be a nation apart from the parent stock. Converts also became exempt from the cizje, a protective tax levied only on non-Muslim males. At any rate, by 1750, most Christian families had converted to Islam, for the benefits of social networking of the citizens and for financial soundness. Bektashi tekkes are subject to the Bektashi order, and in some areas fundings from Saudi Arabia or other countries has led to concern about possible Wahhabi-Salafi attempts to influence Kosovo and its social habits, although such influences are very rarely visible.

Today, 95.6% of Kosovo’s population are Muslims, most of whom are ethnic Albanians. During the war, Islamic architectural heritage posed for Yugoslav Serb paramilitary and military forces as Albanian patrimony with destruction of non-Serbian architectural heritage being a methodical and planned component of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. In all, eighteen months of the Yugoslav Serb counterinsurgency campaign between 1998 and 1999 within Kosovo resulted in 225 or a third out of a total of 600 mosques being damaged, vandalised, or destroyed alongside other Islamic architecture during the conflict. Since Yugoslav times, the official organisation of Muslims in Kosovo has been the Islamic Community of Kosovo, led by its Grand Mufti, currently Naim Tërnava. Reineck, Janet. Neighbors at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture, and History. Malcolm, Noel, Kosovo: A Short History, pp. Reconstructionist polytheists apply scholarly disciplines such as history, archaeology and language study to revive ancient, traditional religions that have been fragmented, damaged or even destroyed, such as Norse Paganism, Roman and Celtic. But for most of Kosovo’s history, there has been a rift between Serbian Orthodox Christianity versus Albanian Catholic Christianity and Albanian Sunni Islam, as existing in the country. There have long been contacts between the Islamic Community of Kosovo and the Catholic Church in Kosovo, and in 2011 regular meetings began at the level of Mufti and Bishops both of the Catholic Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo.

Both the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Sultan viewed the conversion of Albanians to Islam as something positive as it weakened the Balkan Catholic nucleus, and the Sultan received new subjects. In 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British Ambassador to the Sublime Porte wrote that her Albanian escort from Belgrade to Istanbul claimed to go to the mosque on Fridays and church on Sundays. In his opinion, the number of members of a religion / church in Hungary is elusive anyway. The majority of Roma Muslims belong to Sufi brotherhoods, a sizeable number of practising Albanian Muslims also. Albanians in the mountainous ‘Sufi belt’ of Kosovo have chased away many of their Roma or Gorani neighbours, even though they often belonged to the same Sufi brotherhoods. In most of the western half of Kosovo, nearly every village has at least one Sufi brotherhood. Buddhists usually recognize multiple objects of faith, but many are especially devoted to one particular object of faith, such as one particular Buddha. In 110 minority-concentrated districts, at least a fifth of the population are Muslim. Sufi lodges (tekkes), Muslim theological schools (madrasas) and Islamic libraries sustained damage or destruction resulting in the loss of rare books, manuscripts and other collections of literature.