THE KANUN OF HONOR
Gëzim Zilja
ISBN 978-9928-940-64-3
Price: 1200 ALL / 12 €
216 pages
“…Not only the enemies of the nation, but also many local pedants and emigrants of the Albanian state, consider the Kanun a barbaric law and the people for whom the Kanun held legal value as savage… The laws of the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini correspond to those of Rome, Byzantium, the customary laws of the Teutons, the Slavs, the Indians, thus they do not belong to the category of barbaric laws… The conclusion is clear: There is no reason why, unlike all other peoples of the world, only our Kanun should be considered a barbaric law…”
– Fr. Gjergj Fishta (1871–1940)
