Albanian Literature Written in the Arabic Alphabet

Abstract

Albanian literature of Baytajes appears as a new stream of Albanian pre-renaissance literature. Here, once again, we must emphasize that this literature was developed by many talented poets and literary consciousness formed by the intertwining of Turkish-Arab-Persian culture with the Albanian folk culture. All this undoubtedly shows the high level and awareness of religious, ideological, national and human thoughts of the Albanian literary elite of Baytajes that used the Arabic and Ottoman letters in their literary work for almost two hundred years. Those Albanian Baytajes used the form of thick chorus, to reach a greater ideo-emotional effect. However, this feature was also under the influence of poetry and poets of the Islamic East.