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Apr 2025
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What is the Bektashi Order?

FILIP HOLM
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Sources/Recomended Reading:


Elsie, Robert (2019). "The Albanian Bektashi: History and Culture of a Dervish Order in the Balkans". I.B. Tauris.


Kingsley Birge, John (1937). "The Bektashi Order of Dervishes". Hartford Seminary Press.


Smith, Grace Martin (1993). "The Poetry of Yunus Emre: A Turkish Sufi Poet". University of California Press.


Soileau, Mark (2018). "Humanist Mystics: Nationalism and the Commemoration of Saints in Turkey". The University of Utah Press.


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