MAPS
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The Balkans
The former distribution of the Baktāshīyya in Albania 74
Nineteenth-century map showing the Ottoman territories in the Balkans, printed in Arabic frontispiece
PLATES
1. The Leaden Mosque (Xhamië e Plumbit), Shkodër, Albania 55
2. Mosque in Korçë, Albania 72
3. Early 19th-century view of Berat, Albania 75
4. External wall-painting, Edhem Bey Mosque, Tiranë 77
6. Outer courtyard of the Sinān Pasha tekke of the Qādiriyya order in Sarajevo, built in 1640 104
8. Elaborate gravestone of a Bābā, Krujë 130
10. Recent fresco in Krujë castle showing Skanderbeg’s victory over the Ottoman Turks 167
11. Four folios from an early Bosnian composition in Arabic on the Meccan pilgrimage 198
1. The Leaden Mosque (Xhamië e Plumbit), Shkodër, Albania
2. Mosque in Korçë, Albania
3. Early 19th-century view of Berat, Albania
4. External wall-painting, Edhem Bey Mosque, Tiranë
5. Opening and final folios of commentary on Ḥurūfi verses of Sayyid Sharīf by the Albanian Baktāshī dervish, Yūsuf b. Ḥaydar
6. Outer courtyard of the Sinān Pasha tekke of the Qādiriyya order in Sarajevo, built in 1640
7. Tomb of a Baktāshī Baba, capped by a crown (tāj), in the cemetery adjoining the Dollma tekke, Krujë, Albania
8. Elaborate gravestone of a Bābā, Krujë
9. Tombs with turbaned headstones, and pavilion-like mausolea, in the Turkish cemetery on Alifakovac hill, Sarajevo
10. Recent fresco in Krujë castle showing Skanderbeg’s victory over the Ottoman Turks
11. Four folios from an early Bosnian composition in Arabic on the Meccan pilgrimage
12. The ‘New Mosque’ in Algiers, built in 1660 for the Turks, Bosnians, Arnauts and Janissaries in the city
