Kerkoj ndjese qe artikulli eshte ne anglisht (adresuar nje liste jo shqip-folese). olsi flet per indiferencen e shtetit karshi shkaterrimve kulturore te veprave qe perfaqesojne kulturen otomane... Duam s'duam nje pjese e madhe e kultures shqiptare eshte pasoje e pushtimit otoman. Mund ta mohojme ate duke e neglizhuar po ne te njejten kohe mohojme dhe veten.
lexoni artikullin me poshte:
The destruction of the Cultural Heritage in Bosnia and Kosova during
the recent Balkanic wars is appalling indeed. However, I would have
been very happy if the international community would have shown the
same concern for the almost total destruction which has happened and
is happening in Albania with its Ottoman heritage. If almost everyone
knows the crusade which the past communist regime of Enver Hoxha did
against the Ottoman Architecture of Albania: the present indifference
of the state towards Albania's Ottoman past is almost never heard.
The international community must be aware that the present days
Albania inherits many Ottoman-Islamic monuments (mosques, graves,
turbas, tekes, hamams etc) which need protection and restoration.
Here I can mention places like the mosque of Mehmet Bushati in
Shk odra, the mosque of Iliaz Bey Mirahori in Korça, Fâtih's mosque in
Elbasan etc. Even that present days Albania inherits many Ottoman
cultural monuments, the attention of the Albanian Ministry of Culture
seems to be not with their preservation. I remember that at the time
when Edi Rama was minister of culture in Albania, in his ministry's
website he had included a long list of Churches to be reconstructed
with state funds. In that list, only one or two mosques could be
seen. Even at present, Albania's minister of culture Arta Dade, is
often seen opening restoration programs for Byzantine Churches
throughout Albania (for example in the Vlach city of Voskopoja). But
the historical mosque of Iliaz Bej Mirahori which lays few miles far
in Korça is in ruins at present.
The politics of communist historiography in Albania has been to wipe
out any oriental link which the country inherited from the Ottomans.
Albania's communists we re obsessed with wiping out anything Islamic
from Albania's past. For this reason, the regime demolished most of
the mosques of Albania's cities and portrayed Albania's history under
the Ottoman as an unending era of epic wars of Albanian freedom
fighters against the Islamic Oriental invaders. Strangely enough,
this policy seems to be in place even at present days Tirana. The
Albanian Muslim Community which is continuously demanding to build a
central mosque in Tirana for its believers' needs, who at present
pray their Jummah prayers in streets, is continuously and politely
prohibited to build it. The Albanian Muslim Community is surprised
why since 1992 its inherited VAKF of Namazgja zone in central Tirana
is not being given to it, while 200 meters below its VAKF, a huge
Catholic Cathedral has been built.
Every stranger who can visit the National Museum of Albania in Tirana
at present, that of Durrës etc may easily fin d out that in Albania's
museums, historical remains from the era of the Romans, Byzantines
until Skanderbeg are being well preserved and advertised. The era of
Skanderbeg has even a museum of its own in the city of Kruja, where
Albanian historians have tried to preserve everything from
Skanderbeg's life. However, Albania's much later history from
Skanderbeg, of 500 years under the Ottomans does not have even a
single gallery in Albania's national museum. The many Vezirs, Pashas
and Beys which made history in Albania for the last 500 years: from
Ali Pasha of Ioninna, to Bushatlis of Shkodra, Iliaz Bej Mirahori of
Korça, Suleyman Pashe Bargjini (the founder of Tirana) and many more
are absent from being shown in Albania's national museums. They are
forgotten, or at very list shortly remembered in the Albanian
history - textbooks. Albania's present Prime Minister, Fatos Nano,
once has even claimed that Albania's history under th e Ottomans has
been a time of 555 years of darkness. This darkness seems to have
covered even the preservation of this past history in Albanian
museums and history books.
I do not know what should be done for ending this undeclared official
barbarity of Albania's 500 years Ottoman history, and for preserving
and repairing many sights of Ottoman Albania. But I know something
per sure: much of the church constructions which happen at present
Albania is being sponsored from Western agencies and embassies
operating in the country. Since long times I have been thinking of
the need for having an Albanian Institute for Oriental Studies in
Tirana, where Albania's Ottoman and Islamic past history could be
preserved and documented. But I do not know who could sponsor this
Oriental initiative in our economically bankrupt, but fanatically
Occidental Albania.
Olsi Jazexhi
Tirana
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