Sheikh Mustafa Ruhi Efendi

Haci Mustafa Ruhi Efendi
Mustafa Ruhi Efendi tombstone
Religious and Political Leader
Personal details
Born	1800 Gökçeada (Imbros), Ottoman Empire
Died	1893 (aged 93) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (actual Turkey)
Children	- Sabri Kalkandelen (Poet, Chief of the Istanbul Imperial Library) - Fatma Hanko (mother of General Hayrullah Fişek) - Hürrem - Zehra
Residence	Kalkandelen, Ottoman Empire (actual Tetovo, Macedonia)
Religion	Sunni Muslim

Mustafa Ruhi Efendi (1800 - 1893, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire) was a religious (Naqshbandi) and political leader in the Balkans during the Ottoman period. Born on the Turkish Aegean island of Gökçeada (Imbros), he moved as a young man to the city of Kalkandelen, Tetovo in today's Macedonia, back then Vilayet of Kosovo. He was one of the participants of the League of Prizren which established the basis of Albanian nationalism, and was elected "President of the Central Committee of the League". He was buried in the courtyard of the Yahya Efendi mausoleum in the Yıldız Palace park in Istanbul.

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