Hafëz Ismet Dibra

Hafiz Ismet Dibra (in Albanian: Hafiz Ismet Dibra; 1886 - 1955) was an Albanian religious leader and writer.

Biography
He was born in 1886 in the city of Debar, Ottoman Empire, now North Macedonia. He initially studied in his hometown, and then in a madrasa, where he earned the honorary title of Hafiz. He lived and studied for a while in Constantinople, but then went to present-day Albania. There, he developed a wide range of educational and religious activities among Albanians. During the first congress of Muslim Albanians in Tirana in March 1923, he was elected chairman of the Islamic community. He taught religious subjects in a madrasa in Tirana, and during that time, he also gave lectures elsewhere. His religious and philosophical works were published in Tirana, and a collection of his works was published under the auspices of the Albanian Islamic Center in Detroit, USA, in 1933.

Hafiz Ismet Dibra was arrested during communist rule in Albania in the 1960s and was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his religious beliefs. He died in 1955 in Tirana at the age of 69.