Hafiz Sabri Koçi

Haxhi Hafiz Sabri Koçi ( born May 14, 1921 in Orenja at Librazhd, † June 18, 2004 in Tirana ) was a Sunni cleric. From 1991 until shortly before his death in 2004, he was Chairman of the Council of Muslims in Albania.

Under the communist regime Koçi was imprisoned for 20 years for "propaganda against the socialist order of society ." After his release from prison in 1986, he worked in construction. In November 1990 he headed in Shkodra in the Lead Mosque, the first public prayer of the Muslims since the imposition of the ban on religion in 1967. 1991 he was elected chairman of the Muslim Community of Albania and the supreme mufti of the country. In the spring of 2004 he resigned his offices for health reasons. He is succeeded by Selim Muça.

Under Kociš guide many Muslim institutions in Albania were new or re-established throughout the country and hundreds of mosques reactivated or newly built. The Supreme Mufti sat particularly also for a good relationship with the Sunnis to the Christian denominations in the country and to the Bektashi. He was appointed together with archbishops of the Orthodox and Catholics and the United Dede the Bektashi posthumously honorary citizen of Tirana 2005.