less severe than, for instance, those taken against Romanian Roman Catholics and Protestants. The state sponsored an edition of the Qur'an, and top clerics such as Mufti Iacub Mehmet and Bucharest Imam Regep Sali, represented the community in the Great National Assembly during Nicolae Ceaușescu's years in office. In the 1980s, a delegation of Romanian Muslims visited Iran after the Islamic Revolution succeeded in that country. They also adhered to international bodies sponsored by Libya and Saudi Arabia. These gestures, according to Irwin, brought only a few objections from the regime. Following the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Tatar and Turkish were again added to the curriculum for members of the respective communities, and, in 1993, the Medgidia madrasah was reopened as a Theological and Pedagogic High School named after Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The school was later elevated to National College status, and is known in Romanian as Colegiul Național Kemal Atatürk. Since the 1990s, the official representatives of the Muslim community maintain close relations with international non-governmental organizations such as the Muslim World League. Also after the fall of communism, ethnic Romanians began converting to Islam. According to Murat Iusuf, they number in the thousands, and are frequently women who marry Muslim men. In 2014, a member of this community established the Maryam Mosque. Located in Rediu, in the region of Moldavia, its congregation is made up of converts. Statistics Gallery See also Ottoman Romania Religion in Romania Notes References Lucian Boia, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness, Central European University Press, Budapest, 2001. Ioana Feodorov, "Ottoman Authority in the Romanian Principalities as Witnessed by a Christian Arab Traveler of the 17th Century", in B. Michalak-Pikulska, A. Pikulski (eds.), Authority, Privacy and Public Order in Islam: Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of L'Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Peeters Publishers, Leuven, 2006, p. 295-303. Zachary T. Irwin, "The Fate of Islam in the Balkans: A Comparison of Four State Policies", in Pedro Ramet (ed.), Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics, Duke University Press, Durham & London, 1989, p. 378-407. External links The Romanian Muftiyat The Kemal Atatürk National College in Medgidia, School Map entry; hosted by the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth Liga Islamică și Culturală din România (The Islamic and Cultural League of Romania), a non-governmental organization of Muslim students in Romania Asociația Musulmanilor din România (The Muslim Association of Romania), a