Muçi Zade is the author of the earliest known Albanian
poem written in Arabic script and in the Muslim tradition. The
work is taken from a manuscript discovered in Korça and
is dated 1724. In this octosyllabic poem, with an AAAB rhyme
in the Albanian original, the author laments not having any coffee
with which to break his fast at sunset in the Holy Month of Ramadan.
Nothing else in known of the elderly Muçi Zade.
Albanian Literature in Translation
Early
Authors (16th - 18th centuries)
