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The Code of Lekė Dukagjini
Kanuni i Lekė Dukagjinit
English and Albanian
Editor: Shtjefėn K. Gjeēovi ( 1874-1929)
Translator: Leonard Fox
ISBN 0-9622141-0-8 . 290pp . Hardback.
Published by: Gjonlekaj Publishing
About The Code of Lekė Dukagjini
------'The entire essence of the legal code of the Albanians is an unparalleled rigourous respect for this basic principle:nonviolation of the dignity of a man- his honour, home and life.
Ismail Kadare
-------- "The Kanun" or Code of Lekė Dukagjini is an extraordinary monument of Albanian culture, essential for the understanding of all the northern Albanians lands. This magnificent edition, is an indispensable work for anyone who wishes to explore the history and traditions of the Albanian people.
Noel Malcolm, author of Kosovo: A short History, 1998
---------------- Certainly th Kanun is an unique document, a codification of practices amounting to law of great historical significance. In addition, it provides the bedrock for the rule of law in Albania even today
Robert W. Sweet, United States District Judge
---------------- For all their habits, laws and customs, the people , as a rule, have but one explanation: 'It is in the Canon of Lek...' As for the laws ascribed to him, the greater part are obviously far earlier than the 15th century, when he is said to have lived. They probably were obeyed by the unknown warriors of the bronze weapons in the prehistoric graves.'
Edith Durham, High Albania (1909)
Note about the Editor
Shtjefen K. Gjeēovi(1874-1929) was born in Janjevė, Kosovė and educated in Shkodėr. Between 1888 and 1896 he studied for the priesthood in Kresevo of World War I, when Kosova was forcibly made part of Yugoslavia, Father Gjeēov was assigned to his old post as parish priest in Zym near Prizren. An active Albanian nationalist, he was ambushed and killed by the Serbian authorities on his way to Zym in 1929.
Note about the translator
Leonard Fox has taught linguistics and Sanskrit at New York University after spending several years as a Georgian language specialist in Munich, he now works as an author and literary translator. His translations from Albanian have appeared in Translation and International Poetry Review.
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