Islam in Albania was characterised by an increasing secularisation of Albanian society which had begun with Albanian Independence in 1912 carrying on influences from the Albanian National Awakening. D
Ismail Kemal with Muslom clerics on the first anniversary of the session of the Assembly of Vlorë which proclaimed the independence of Albania.
Muslim cemetery in Kavaja (around the Kubelie Mosque in 1917)
Great Mosque of Durrës, (built 1931).
Prime minister, later king Ahmet Zog I (1895–1961)
Mustafa Gjinishi was an Albanian communist from Peqin, central Albania. He was known for having opposed Enver Hoxha and the Italian invasion of Albania.