Muçi Zade

Muçi Zade (from Persian-Ottoman meaning son of Muçi) was the author of the earliest known Albanian poem written in Arabic script and belonging to the era of Bejtexhinj. Nothing is known about him beside his poem Imzot, mos më lerë pa kahve ("My Lord, don't leave me without coffee"), and that he was at an old age at the time he composed it.

The poem is taken from a manuscript discovered in Korça, southeastern Albania, and is dated 1724, or 1725. The poem is the earliest Albanian text written in Arabic alphabet that has survived. It is also the oldest Tosk verse written in Albania.

The earliest study of Muçi Zade and his poem was done by Osman Myderrizi in 1955, published in Buletini i Shkencave Shoqerore, titled Letersia Shqipe ne Alfabetin Arab ("Albanian Literature in Arabic Alphabet").