Gani Bobi (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, t ...

: Гани Боби) (20 November 1943 – 17 July 1995) was an Albanian philosopher and sociologist from

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. He was born in Lubenić, municipality of

Peć Peja ( Indefinite Albanian form: ''Pejë'' ) or Peć ( sr-Cyrl, Пећ ) is the fourth largest city of Kosovo and seat of Peja Municipality and Peja District. It is situated in the region of Rugova on the eastern section of the Accursed Moun ...

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. He was one of the first Albanian professors of sociology and philosophy at the

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(1981). He got a doctorate degree in sociology at the

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in 1986 after finishing his studies in language and literature at the University of Pristina. He lived in

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. His publications have been published in five volumes called ''Vepra''. Among his main publications were ''Sprovimet e modernitetit'' (1982), ''Paradoks kulturor'' (1986) and ''Konteksti i vetëkulturës'' (1994), some of them translated into English and Serbian. ''Gani Bobi Center'' for Social Studies founded by

Shkëlzen Maliqi Shkëlzen Maliqi (born 26 October 1947) is a Kosovar philosopher, art critic, political analyst and intellectual. During the early 1990s, Shkelzen was also directly involved in politics. He was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party ...

was named after him. During his later days he worked as editor of philosophy at ''Koha'' magazine published in Pristina in 1994.''KOHA Ditore 10 vjetët e parë'', Koha Prishtinë 2007, pg. 173 ( tp://82.114.77.27/pub/shtojcat-monografia/monografia_kohaditore.pdf english

Agim Çavdarbasha Agim Çavdarbasha ( sh, Agim Čavdarbaša, Агим Чавдарбаша) (24 March 1944 – 20 October 1999) was a Kosovo Albanian sculptor. Çavdarbasha was a major influence on contemporary sculpture in Kosovo. Born in Peć, Democratic Fe ...

' 1987 sculpture ''The Women of Lybeniq'' shows women leaning to see Bobi's funeral. GOPR1786

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Notes: References: 20th-century Albanian philosophers Yugoslav philosophers University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni University of Pristina alumni 1943 births 1995 deaths Kosovo Albanians Yugoslav people of Albanian descent {{Kosovo-bio-stub

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