The Bektashi Order or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi mystic order originating in the 13th-century Ottoman Empire. It is named after the saint Haji Bektash...

Bektashi Dedebaba (or Kryegjysh) of the Bektashi Order. He is the world leader of the Bektashi Muslims. Edmond Brahimaj was born to devout Bektashi Muslims...

pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina to perform Hajj. He is the eponym of the Bektashi Sufi order and is considered one of the principal teachers of Alevism. According...

The Bektashi Order (see Bektashi Order) is an Islamic Sufi order that spread to Albania through Albanian Janissaries during the period of Ottoman control...

as the Kryegjyshata) is the international headquarters of the Bektashi Order, a Sufi order. It is located on Dhimitër Kamarda Street at the eastern edge...

Bektashi Dedebabate (Arabic: بكتاشى ضدببا) is the religious leadership of Bektashi Islam. The dedebabas (Albanian: kryegjysh) are the spiritual and religious...

Cooperation). The Bektashi Order was widespread in the Ottoman Empire, with most leading Bektashi babas from southern Albania. The Bektashi order was banned...

tariqa in the West is the Mevlevi Order, named after Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi. In the same time the Bektashi Order was also founded, named after the...

Sultan (d. circa 1517/1519) was a Turcoman Bektashi sufi who established and codified the Bektashi Order at the beginning of the 16th century. The mystical...

adherents. Rakia, a fruit brandy, is used as a sacramental element by the Bektashi Order, and Alevi Jem ceremonies, where it is not considered alcoholic and...

issued, which allowed the prohibition of the Bektashi Sufi Order. The former leader of the Bektashi Order, Hamdullah Çelebi, was initially sentenced to...

political importance in the 15th century, when the order dominated the Janissaries. The term “Alevi-Bektashi” is currently a widely and frequently used expression...

2023 census, there were 960,949 (40%) Sunni Muslims and 256,413 (10.67%) Bektashi Muslims; the remaining population consisted of 201,530 (8.38%) Catholics...

international headquarters of the Bektashi Order until Atatürk outlawed all dervish orders in 1925. In 1930, the Bektashi Order officially set up its new headquarters...

(Albanian: Tyrbja e Abaz Aliut) is a Bektashi türbe (Albanian: tyrbe "shrine", or mekam, "holy tomb") is a Bektashi shrine traditionally considered to be...

influenced many members of the Nazi Party. He was a Freemason, a Sufi of the Bektashi order - after his conversion to Islam - and a practitioner of meditation,...

close relationship with them. Many Young Turks affiliated with the Bektashi order were members and patrons of Freemasonry. They were also closely allied...

ceremonies of the Alevi community of Turkey and the closely related Bektashi Order. The most common forms of Alevi sema include kirklar semahı (sema of...

Baba Rexheb, Bektashi Sufi religious leader and saint and 7th Dedebaba of the Bektashi Order Xhafer Sadik, 4th Dedebaba of the Bektashi Order Mehmet Tahsini...

Haji Bektash Veli, disciples of whom had blessed the first troops. Bektashi Order served as a kind of chaplain for Janissaries. In this and in their secluded...

Abbas Ali Türbe Elsie, Robert (2019). The Albanian Bektashi: history and culture of a Dervish order in the Balkans. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78831-569-2...

led by its Grand Mufti, currently Naim Tërnava. Bektashi tekkes are subject to the Bektashi order, and in some areas fundings from Saudi Arabia or other...

Xhafer bey Ypi (Albanian pronunciation: [ˈdʒafɛɾ ˈbɛj ˈypi] January 12, 1880, Starje – December 17, 1940) was an Albanian politician. A member of the Ypi...

Current Sufi orders include Madariyya Order, Alians, Bektashi Order, Mevlevi Order, Ba 'Alawiyya, Chishti Order, Jerrahi, Naqshbandi, Mujaddidi, Ni'matullāhī...

religious leader who served as the 7th kryegjysh or Dedebaba of the Bektashi Order from 1991 to 2011. Dede Reshat was born on 4 March 1935 in village of...

developed into two separate directions: the metaphorical Ismaili, Alevi, Bektashi, Alian, and Alawite groups focusing on the mystical path and nature of...

ISBN 9789027234537. Osmani, Edlira. "God in the Eagles' Country: The Bektashi Order" (PDF). iemed.org. Quaderns de la Mediterrània 17, 2012. p. 113. Archived...

(dede). In 1916, Salih Nijazi was appointed Dedebaba (kryegjysh) of the Bektashi Order, succeeding Fejzi Dede. However, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk banned all dervish...

Shīʿah belief, such as the Alawites and the Bektashi Order, have also been considered antinomian. The Bektashis, particularly, have practices that diverge...

largely preserved in popular culture due to its use by dervishes of the Bektashi Order.[better source needed] According to Fazlallah, the key to open the seventh...