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Bektashi-traditionen – en folkelig sufisme?
Tidsskrift for Islamforskning, 2017 One of the central linages in Turkish Sufism was the Ottoman promoted Bektashi Order, closely connected to the Janissary corps. Nowadays the tradition is often labeled as a ‘popular Sufism’, without any discussion of what that concept means and the ...
Emil B.H. Saggau
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The Bektashi Order, Sufism, and Shī’īsm in the Work of Baba Rexheb, a Bektashi Sufi of 20th Century
Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, 2021 The Bektashi order is known for its Shī’ī roots. However, there are contradictory interpretations in determining the origins or teachings of the Bektashi order.
Seyedamirhossein Asghari
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Edeb ErkanThis article is an account of a trip to Alevi Bektashi tekkes and mausoleums in Bulgaria in July 2022, guided by an Alevi Bektashi Sufi, not a professional researcher but a practising Sufi.
Nina Sorokina
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The Impact of Bektashi Penetration on the Ottoman Empire
Al-Tahrir, 2022 This article aims to explain the role of Bektashi Sufism. It was practiced for centuries in the Ottoman Empire and is considered a branch of the Ja’fari school of Shia.
Meirison Meirison +3 more
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Experiencing Becoming: The Initiation Process into Bektashi Tradition
Religions, 2019 Initiation into the Bektashi Sufi order is formalized as the initiate is led through a complex ritual form replete with symbols of death and rebirth, sacrifice, and integration that are enacted as the ritual is performed and in various ways experienced ...
Mark Lewis Soileau
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ReligionsIn this study, which focuses on animal symbolism in Alevi–Bektashi menakıpnames (hagiographies), the objective was to investigate animal symbolism, which is not unfamiliar but not fully understood.
Haktan Kaplan
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ReligionsMany philosophers have approached the nature of laughter and various ideas have been put forward in the period from the classical period to the present day.
Hasan Savas +2 more
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Bektashi Convents Converted into Churches in Rumelia
Edeb ErkanFollowing the end of Ottoman rule, the architectural heritage of the Turks—particularly the dervish convents (tekkes) and mausoleums (türbes) that played significant roles in cultural and social organization during early conquests—was repurposed by ...
Mehmet Emin Yılmaz
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An analysis of the trinity and principle beliefs within the Bektashi Alavi order [PDF]
Kom: Časopis za Religijske Nauke, 2021 The Bektashi Order is from amongst those orders whose teachings are based upon Shia thought, but whose practices have drastically transformed because of the influence placed upon it by the Christians and Sunnis in the Balkans and Anatolia.
Salehi Muhammad Baqer
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A Historical Document: Unknown Diwan (Poetry) of Ali İlhami Dede / Bir Tarihî Vesika: Ali İlhami Dede’nin Bilinmeyen Divanı [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2021 There is very few information in the sources about Ali İlhami Dede, the last postnishin (Mawlavi sheikh) who grew up in the Alevi Bektashi order. His poems are included in several books, while his poems collected by his grandson have been published as ...
Atiye Nazlı
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