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Ali was born to Abu Talib and his wife Fatima bint Asad around 600 CE, [1] some thirty years after the Year of the Elephant. [2] Shia and some Sunni sources report that Ali was the only person born in the Ka'ba, the ancient shrine in the city of Mecca which later became the most sacred site in Islam.
Ali may have been the only person born inside the Ka'ba, [4] [3] [2] the holiest site of Islam, which is located in Mecca. Ali's father was a leading member of the Banu Hashim, a clan within the Meccan tribe of Quraysh. [3] Abu Talib also raised his nephew Muhammad after his parents died.
Xhamia e Çarshisë is known also as the "Stone Mosque", from Turkish word Taş which means stone. [21] Other well known Ottoman mosques, just to name few, are: Gazi Ali Beg Mosque built (1410) in Vushtrri, The Mosque in Krajkovo (1480) in Drenas, The Hadum Mosque (1595) in Gjakova, The Mosque in Polac (1635) in Skenderaj and many others.
Ali refused to resign his official posts and put up a formidable resistance to Ottoman troop movements, indirectly helping the Greek Independence as some 20,000 Turkish troops were fighting Ali's formidable army. In January 1822, however, Ottoman agents assassinated Ali Pasha and sent his head to the Sultan.
Hussein bin Ali was buried in Jerusalem in 1931, as he wasn't able to be buried in Mecca, as he wanted and as was the norm for Sharifs of Mecca until then, for Ibn Saud didn't want to allow him being buried there. [11] Thus, local dignitaries and leaders wanted him to be buried in the al-Aqsa mosque compound. [37]
The Al–Aga Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Mlikës, lit. 'Mosque of Mlika'; Serbian: Мличка џамија, romanized: Mlička džamija), also known as the Mosque of Haxhi Hussein (Albanian: Xhamia e Haxhi Hysenit) and Ahmet Aga Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Ahmet Agës) is the oldest mosque in Kosovo as well as in the entire Balkan region.
Islam in Kosovo has a long-standing tradition dating back to the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans.Before the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the entire Balkan region had been Christianized by both the Western and Eastern Roman Empire.
The Muderis Ali Efendi Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Myderis Ali Efendisë; Turkish: Müderris Ali Efendi Camii), also named Mosque of Ali Hoxha (Albanian: Xhamia e Ali Hoxhës), is a mosque in Prizren, Kosovo. Built between 1543 and 1581, it is one of the oldest mosques in Kosovo. [1] It is situated on the street "Rr.