Mustafa Memeti

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Mustafa Memeti (born August 20, 1962 in Žujince , Opština Preševo , Serbia , Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia ) is a Swiss imam .

Memeti is an imam and head of the Muslim Association of Bern and President of the Board of the Albanian Islamic Association of Switzerland. He also works as a pastor in the Thorberg prison . Memeti and his association take part in the interreligious project House of Religions . In 2014 he was named “Swiss of the Year” by the Sunday newspaper , because he stands up against extremism and for peaceful coexistence.

Life

Mustafa Memeti was born in southern Serbia as the fourth of eight children of Vaxhid Memeti. He attended elementary school in his birthplace and at the age of 13 went to the Arab world to study. He studied in Syria, Tunisia and then in Saudi Arabia, at the Islamic University in Medina , Islamic law and hadith studies .

Memeti has lived in Switzerland since around 1988 and was naturalized in 2005. He is married, has three children and lives in the agglomeration of Bern.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Imam ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Muslim Association of Bern, accessed on November 8, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muslimischer-verein.ch
  2. ↑ Albanisch Islamischer Verband Schweiz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Internet excerpt, Commercial Register of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on November 8, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / zh.powernet.ch  
  3. ↑ Bern imam cares for Muslim prisoners , Der Bund / Newsnet , August 7, 2012, accessed on November 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ Muslims ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , House of Religions website, accessed November 8, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haus-der-religionen.ch
  5. ↑ Mustafa Memeti is “Swiss of the Year” . In: The Bund . Bern December 28, 2014 ( derbund.ch [accessed June 15, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Islam: “The 'holy war' has no place with us” , Observer , 2/2007 (January 17, 2007), accessed on November 8, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Memeti, Mustafa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss imam
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Žujince , Preševo , Serbia , Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia