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Turkey Funds Revival of Female Islamic Preachers in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)

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Kosovo Albanian women lost their place in Islam with the demise of the Ottoman Empire. Now Turkey is helping them take it back.

Perfume permeates the air inside the Uhud mosque in the southwestern Kosovo city of Prizren, the country’s unofficial cultural capital and for centuries a major Balkan crossroad for traders and religions.

Women read aloud in unison from the pages of the Quran, their heads draped in brightly-coloured scarves.

See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/turkey-funds-revival-of-female-islamic-preachers-in-kosovo-09-12-2018

 

 

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