Islamic mysticism and the bektashi path by baba rexheb. Albanias bektashi are muslim, but some of their practices. Hacibektas and haci bektas veli haci bektas veli and the bektashi order. Sultan yshak, the leading figure of the kakai tradition, was the predecessor of hacy bektash veli, founder of the bektashi order.
May 06, 2017 bektashi followers have no specific calls to prayer or rules on food, and instead are asked to focus on building their own relationships with god, accepting all faiths and nationalities into their. Read now and download geschichten aus dem maidenlager worpswede 19461954. Its beleived that haci bektas veli lived between 1208 or 1209 1270 or 1271, but we know very little about his life except stories and legends. Haji bektash veli was a descendant of musa kazim, the seventh imam of the athnaashariyyah shia muslim sect. However, the iraqi and iranian bektashi tradition began to decline after the establishment of the republican regime in turkey in 1923 because of the countrys deteriorating relations with the middle east. He is considered the founder of the bektashi branch of mystical poetry and excelled particularly in humoroussatirical verse. Bektashi tariqah sufi order founded in the thirteenth century in anatolia by hajji bektash veli. There is hardly any significant indian author who has not been featured in the pages of this journal that has completed 55. To better appreciate this we must arguably begin by attempting to comprehend the underlying significance of the structures of religious representation and mediation, and the implication of their change in support of either. In order to get some clear and crucial information about the bektashi order, we have to study even shortly some historical events which took place at that time of its rise. Afet inan mustafa kemal ataturkun karlsbad hatiralari a. Pdf the bektashi tarikah of dervishes olsi jazexhi. The bektashi pages by naim frasheri paperback lulu.
Sufi dervish in tiran albania old mosque in castle of kruja. Bektashi order article about bektashi order by the free. There have been attempts to gather its history, characteristic ideas, and observable aspects together and to elucidate its inner wisdom in. Bektashi historical vulgate, making of its protagonists succes sively the promoters of the nation, the allies of secularity or the spearheads of democracy, perhaps for the same political or ideological reasons than their fellow bektashis. In this, his final book, robert elsie analyses the albanian bektashi and considers their role in the countrys history. I was aware, from my conversations with him and with others, that they are of a mystical sufist tradition, preach tolerance, love, and peace, and consider some of the traditions of orthodox islam regarding the role of women and the use of alcohol to be distractions from the truth. Diger yandan nasrettin hoca, incili cavus, temel, laz, bektasi f. Weve also made it easy to connect with your friends. Mai 2004, oclc 7323795 onlineversion des artikels pdf. The constantly recurring migrations across central asia brought not only celts and huns, mongols and turkish tribes but thoughts and artifacts from china and india, and spiritual leaders in the classic eastern form of wandering holy mystics. College of community taibah university, almadinah almunawarah kindgom of saudi arabia. Bektashi tekke in tiran albania bektashi dervish sitting on a wall of tekke.
The beliefs of the bektashi are a mixture of various elements of muslim mainly shiite and christian sectarianism. Bayer uranometria pdf two decades of wisdom has been in circulation nationwide, providing imposed atheism meant that tekkes had to be reclaimed readers with spiritual as well. In albanian folklore, mount tomorr is anthropomorphized and associated with. As far as i know the bektashi order is a sufi order that one can join through initiation, while the alevis faith is closed to outsiders. Join our community just now to flow with the file bektashizmishqip and make our shared file collection even more complete and exciting. Is a small bektashi temple called the dollma teqe bektashi dervish sitting on a wall of tekke. Ottoman architecture in albania 85 1912 download ebook. In his essay the bektashi pages, naim frasheri 18461900, a man often hailed as the father of modern albanian literature, discusses the moral and ethical values of the faith of his youth.
Pdf the aim of this study is to identify how alevismbektashism reverberated to the. This thesis is about the stories about the bektasi that are known in turkey as bektasi f. The bektashi tariqa was, for centuries, based in turkey, and while nonconformist in. The following 8 files are in this category, out of 8 total. Oct 05, 2018 the albanian bektashi sufi tariqa is a heterodox, liberal shia metaphysical order, constituting the only indigenous shia community in europe, except for some alevibektasis in bulgaria and trakya european turkey or thrace, and the descendants of turkish and kurdish immigrants in western europe. Jan 15, 2014 the alevis seem to share many beliefs and rituals with the bektashi s but their communities are organised in a different way. Halvetilik tarikat pdf basic information on the lives, works, and tarikat successors of both figures are abdulkerim abdulkadiroglu, halvetilikin s.
Ali turabi baba, postnisin of the bektashi tekke on mt. Following the death of baba tahir emini, the dedelik of tirana appointed baba edmond brahimaj baba mondi, formerly head of the turan tekke of korce, to oversee the harabati baba tekke in tetovo, republic of macedonia. Bektashi breath esmen, nurtan alan movementssections movtssecs. Bektashi tekke in tiran albania bektashis light up candles outside of tekke. The bektashi way is profoundly simple yet perplexingly complex, striking in its boldness yet gracious in its subtlety. Polyvocia the soas journal of graduate research, vol. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. We may refer to the poetry of yunus emre, the fevaitname of haxhi bektash, there are expressions and a big interest for the next world alakhira.
As we were told and as we saw, the bektashis are pretty liberal in terms of accepting other religions but also regarding alcohol and 40 year olds were smoking pot. The teachings of the bektashi sufis nauk bektasijskog tarikata in bosnian. Also in the stories of the conquest of ali, the traditions of seyit gazi bottaland the ilayetname of haji bektash veli v, and the. Geschichten aus dem maidenlager worpswede 19461954. Consequently, we must reverse the question and precisely. Bektashi stock photos download 70 royalty free photos. He is also referred to as the sultan of hearts and the derwish of the derwishes. Contes des bektachi, bektasi fikralari, ali ekber basaran traduction, bilingue francaisturc, 2006, 74 pages. Tasawwuf in america julianne hazen sufism tasawwuf in the west is often portrayed in the visual media as exotic.
Mount tomorr is a sacred site to both christians, who climb it on assumption day august 15 to honor the virgin mary, and the bektashi, who honor abbas ibn ali during an annual pilgrimage on august 2025. This file contains additional information such as exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. The bektashi order of dervishes birge, john kingsley on. Sami frasheri, a notable muhib affiliate and scholar of bektashism in albania, claimed that haji bektash veli was one of the lofty awliya saints, and that he. Bektashi order of macedonia welcomed into membership the. Bektashi followers have no specific calls to prayer or rules on food, and instead are asked to focus on building their own relationships with god, accepting all faiths and nationalities into their. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page.
Bektashi is a relatively obscure sufi order, which used to be spread out in the middle eastern area, but relocated to the territory of albania due to historic events. What sustains the bektashi tekke in america today while baba arshi was still with us, a young man, dervish eliton pashaj came in 2011. Media in category bektashi order the following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Incongruity of bektasi and sunni image in bektasi jokes. Among the many dervish fraternities which have exercised their influence over the lives of a large. Emphasizes the role of the spiritual teacher as mediator of prayers and blessings, intercession by earlier spiritual teachers, saints, the twelve imams, and ali ibn abi talib as revealer of the mystical understanding of the quran. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations. This file is licensed under the creative commons attributionshare alike 4. Veinstein, istanbul, 1995 and syncretistic religious communities in the near east ed. This study includes the subject of how basic values of bektashi culture reflected to jokes as a. Mount tomorr, near berat, albania, has bektashi tekkas and graves of saints. The bektashi order is an islamic sufi founded in the th century. Originally one of many sufi orders within orthodox sunni.
Published with the kind permission of the alevi bektashi research website, which is full of many more interesting articles on the subject and relative topics. The sect, which was founded in the th century, confounds the idea of irreconcilable differences between the two faiths. The bektashi sufi order has long been recognized for its tolerant and broadminded interpretation of islam. Though bektashi dervises render their services to a wide circle of followers, actual membership of the order is through initiation only. Bektashism is a sufi order and shares much in common with other islamic mystical movements, such as the need for an experienced spiritual guidecalled a baba in bektashi parlanceas well as the doctrine of the four gates that must be traversed. In memory of the late baba tahir emini, ive been reading up on his sect, the bektashi. Download 70 bektashi stock photos for free or amazingly low rates.
Free file collection here you can download file bektashizmishqip. In the case of bektashism as a conglomerationmixture of many. The secret of bektashi, while this is undeniably true, it is not the. A political history of bektashism in albania 85 transformed form. This paper will examine the history and the role of alevi bektashi belief within islamic faith in and its reflections to muslim societies of the balkans in order to understand the contribution of this syncretic belief to religious diversity in europe as a historical legacy. The islamic teachings at the heart of alchemy pdf file for free from our online library created date. The first bosnianlanguage survey of bektashism by senad micijevic illyria new york. Pdf since his death in the th century, the anatolian sufi saint haji. Sep 17, 2014 the bektashi order of dervishes, along with the qizilbashalevi tribes, seems to be becoming more of a dominant voice from what i can tell and so alevi discourse is generally focused on whether alevism is a separate branch of islam that is simply related to shiism or whether it should be considered a branch of shiite islam itself. Were using facebook to give you reading recommendations based on what your friends are sharing and the things you like. Bektashi humor as the bearer of a carnivalesque imagination.
Pdf haci bektas veli and bektashism in education progrms and. Bektashi traditions have been revived in albania since the fall of communism there in the early 1990s. Haci bektas veli and bektashi order all about turkey. Alma bektashi is an actor, known for te gjithe me ne 2000. Despite a lack of bektashi as the bektashi order, owing orofetike the close interconnection babas and dervishes, the alevi folk continued to visit these between the two. Bektashi followers have no specific calls to the bektashi centre in albania is the global headquarters for the the shia order formed in the th century bektashi. In march 2018 when the bektashi community of albania organized a congress for imam ali and celebrated the festival of nowrooz with its bektashi community and the iranian diplomats in tirana, mek asked the albanian authorities to interrupt this religious event and arrest two iranian journalists by falsely claiming that they were terrorists. This decision was supported by the sunni religious elite as well as the leaders of other, more orthodox, sufi orders.
With the banning of religion in albania in 1967, bektashi devotions were carried on by communities in turkey, albanian regions of the balkans, and the united states. Bektashi is a sufi order named after a th century persian saint, haji bektashi veli. He was from the same region of albania as dervish arshi, from southwest albania near vlora. The perfect man in bektashism and alevism tel archives ouvertes. Having an important role in our culture of humor, bektashi jokes storylines. It acquired definitive form in the 16th century in anatolia turkey and spread to the ottoman balkans, particularly albania. Albanias bektashi are muslim, but some of their practices resemble christian ones. The bektashi order of dervishes john kingsley birge on.
In addition to the spiritual teachings of haji bektash veli, the bektashi order was later significantly influenced during its formative period by the hurufis, the qalandariyya stream of sufism, and to varying degrees the shia beliefs circulating in anatolia during the 14th to 16th centuries. Analysis of jokes of bektashi within the context of incongruity theory. Since the whole thing was concocted between the party middle management and the bektashi masters in albania, those in the rank and file were entirely unaware that their photos taken at the ceremonies, rituals, marches and meals, were all evaluated by some dervishes in albania as an extension of their order. The albanian bektashi sufi tariqa is a heterodox, liberal shia metaphysical order, constituting the only indigenous shia community in europe, except for some alevibektasis in bulgaria and trakya european turkey or thrace, and the descendants of turkish and kurdish immigrants in western europe. Review of i aleviten berlin, 1988, the 1986 strasbourg conference on the bektashi order and the 1995 berlin conference on alevism, resulting in the collective volumes bektachiyya ed. He is considered a populist philosopher, sufi and wise man, remembered for his. Indian literature, sahitya akademis bimonthly journal, is indias oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations in english of poetry, fiction, drama and criticism from twentythree indian languages besides original writing in english. Applicants are guided on their spiritual path by a teacher, whose teachings may vary according to the context, be it religious, cultural, or sociopolitical. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. In the following paper an attempt has been made to bring together scattered notices from printed sources regarding the geographical distribution of the bektashi sect, as indicated by the position of existing or formerly existing convents of the order.
Bektashi bektashija, an order of dervishes and the members of this order. The bektashi dervish order is a sufi alevite sect found in anatolia and the balkans with a strong presence in albania. After 1925, when all sufi orders were dissolved in turkey, the bektashi leadership shifted to albania. Bektashiyyah, order of sufi mystics founded, according to their own traditions, by. The members murids of the mevlevi tariqah in texas are pictured whirling in meditation as their teacher did centuries before naim 2005, dramatic images of men moving. Such a trait is also exhibited by the yazidis of northern iraq, and is thought to also be a survival of preislamic times, when the special cups used for drinking wines contained two large handles. Pdf on aug 1, 2012, mark soileau and others published spreading. To the internet archive community, time is running out. He was one of the figures who flourished in the sultanate of rum and had an important influence on the turkish nomads of asia minor. The mystical practices and rituals of the bektashi order were systematized and structured by bal. Publication date ikder topics ikder collection opensource.
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