Jakup Asipi

Mulla Jakup Asipi (2 February 1951 – 7 January 2006) was a Macedonian Albanian mullah and commander of the National Liberation Army. He was one of the most important religious personalities among the Albanian Muslims. His multimedia appearance in the last 25 years, especially after the 1990s, has directly influenced the awareness of the Karadak region, both in terms of the Islamic religious and the national and patriotic aspects.

Life Jakup Asipi was born in the village of Slupčane on 2 February 1951. Asipi completed his primary education in his hometown and his secondary education in Damascus, Syria at the "al-Furkan" madrasa in 1980. He completed his studies at Al-Az'har University, in the Faculty of Islamic Religion in Egypt in 1985, while he continued his postgraduate studies in Beirut, Lebanon. During his studies, Asipi became a Hafiz.

During the years 1985–1990, he worked as an imam in a mosque in Leverkusen, Germany. Aware of the situation in his home country in the 1990s, he returned to contribute to the relieving of the plight of the population. His lectures led to numerous threats and interrogations by the Macedonian police. From this period until his death, he organized over 5,000 lectures.

During the insurgency in Macedonia, Asipi commanded units within the 113th brigade in the "Free Zone of Karadak," which consisted of villages such as Lipkovo, Matejče, and Slupčane, among others, where some of the heaviest fighting during the entire insurgency took place. The terrified Macedonian and Serbian residents of these villages, mostly elderly people, were forced to flee south to the city of Kumanovo. During the insurgency, he became the imam of both Slupčane and Matejče. Për diturinë Sinqeriteti