sentences:  Therefore, the reform was focused on science, education, secularism and women, as a way of “modernizing” the Islam and make Albania more relevant in the European and global context, however there was not important progress until well after WWI.After World War I, the post Ottoman Albania was populated by a 60% of Muslims, 30% Orthodox and 10% Catholics; and during the inter-war period, the state took decisive steps in order to secularize society and the educational system.Despite this Muslim majority, the Albanian leaders defined the state as afetar ("without religion"), with the aim to strengthen national feeling among a population that was divided between different religious groups.