Hodja Hassan Tahsim's personality in Kosovo

Abstract

There are a lot of Albanian personalities having double missions during their lifes. Spiritual missions because that’s how they were educated fulfilled with high responsibility and second mission that of national cause also part of their lifes. Such personality among Albanian leaders in general and Muslim leaders particularly was of course Hodja Hassan Tahsim.
Thanks to his contribution he became the motive of so many writers through Albanian territories.
Among them we can point out authors from Kosova, or authors whose scientific activity was exercised in Kosova, therefore we limit our treatment only there. We must admit that the Hodja Hassan Tahsim’s personality there became part of a series of studies by: H. Kalesh, S. Riza, I. Rexha, P. Nushi, H. Koliqi ect, who gave their maximum valuation on their walks of life where they were specialized. His personality has been and still is introduced on the text books in Kosova. The books of course that deal with our national history. I think that considering his spiritual scientific and national efforts he made on behalf of his motherland and his people, his personality has been treated on a very shallow way. He still doesn’t have the place he deserves on our history text books. If we only had to compare how this figure was treated on our history text books from 1943 when we first published school books of our national history and teaching of it for the first time took place in Kosova, it shows that Hodja Tahsims figure had much more space and attention during 1943 that it had later on up until today. It is worth emphasizing that since 1960 when the text book mentioned above was published up until 1995, Hodja Tahsim is mentioned nowhere not in the primary text books nor the secondary school books. For the first time Albanian pupils will come across with the name of Hodja Hassan Tahsim after thirty five years in 1995 and his portret in 1996.
Regarding treatment of Hodja Tahsim’s figure on social life in Kosova, we have to say that in one of the big cities of the country is named after him. There is also a public secondary school on his name. Compare to other figures Hodja Tahsim treatment is admirable. These are optimistic premises that his personality will further appreciated in the future. Further improvements of Universities in Kosova, particularly after the declaration of its Independence on 27th February 2008, private and public alike, would have been very welcomed that one of those universities be named after former Rectors of Istanbul University, Hodja Hassan Tahsim.