The Birth of Bektashism - From Hacı Bektaş Veli to Balım Sultan

“Considering the central place of the Janissary Corps in the Ottoman State system, it will be understood how close and strong a bond there is between the Bektashi Order and the Ottoman State. On the other hand, Bektashism paradoxically functioned as an umbrella identity in which elements relegated to the periphery of Ottoman religio-political culture gathered. (…) How did these two seemingly diametrically opposed functions come together in the same sect? How could the Bektashi Order, on the one hand, become the platform for unification and fusion of non-sharia dervish piety, which was excluded by the Ottoman system, and on the other hand, become the official order of the Janissary army, which was the core of the system? A book that tells the approximately two hundred and fifty-year formation adventure of the Bektashi Order, starting from Hacı Bektaş and extending to Balım Sultan...

“The myths told around the historical personalities and stories of Abdal Musa, Kızıldeli and of course Hacı Bektaş Veli, the founders of the Bektaşi Way... Hacı Bektaş Lodge in Anatolia, Kızıldeli Lodge in Rumelia, the complex relations between the Greek Abdals and the Çelebi Family. ..

Balım Sultan and the establishment of the Order... Developments after the closure of the Order; The attachment of the Kızılbaşlar to the Hacı Bektaş Lodge and the separation of "Tarık-Pençe"... In this part of his studies on the history of Alevism, Rıza Yıldırım sheds light on the historical formation and world of imagination of Bektashism, as well as giving extremely detailed information about the religious life in Medieval Anatolia in general. It paints a vivid picture.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition