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Hafiz Ali Korça

حافظ علي كورتشا

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Albanian 'alim from Korçë who served as Grand Mufti of the Upper Sharia Council (1916–1924), translated parts of the Qur'an into Albanian (1926), wrote the first Albanian critique of communism (1925), and died in internment at Kavajë in 1957.

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Scholar · Translator · teacher
Region
Anatolia
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    Sources

    • Hafiz Ali Korça — English Wikipedia
    • Hafiz Ali Korça — Albanian Wikipedia
    • Hafiz Ali Korça — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Hafiz Ali Korça”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hafiz-ali-korca/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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