How Islam's European Elites Were Destroyed · Kasurian

A religious revival in Albania reveals a history of power and empire.

European Elites and Muslim Rubes On October 10, 2024, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, alongside dozens of politicians and clerics from Albania and Turkiye, inaugurated the Namazgah Mosque in the centre of Albania’s capital, Tirana – now the largest mosque in the Balkans. Crowds gathered to witness the sight in the public plaza in front of the mosque, which abuts Albania’s parliament and the Tirana fortress atop a small hill in the city centre. Regional social media was flooded with drone footage of jubilant crowds on a warm fall day as clerics supplicated to God. That Friday, for the…

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