Balım Sultan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Balım Sultan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ocak, Ahmet Yaşar

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060893
Doc. NO	:	ALei1290
Main Entry	:	Ocak, Ahmet Yaşar
Title & Author	:	Balım Sultan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ocak, Ahmet Yaşar
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,766 words)
Abstract	:	Balım Sultan (Bālım Sulṭān, 862 (or 878)–922/1457–8 (or 1478)–1516–7) was the founder of the Bektaşi (Bektāşī) Ṣūfī order, its pir-i sanisi ( pīr-i thānīsi , second spiritual leader), and its first official şeyh (shaykh) . He is accepted by the Bektaşis as the second spiritual leader of Bektaşism after Hacı Bektaş-i Veli (Ḥāccī Bektāş Velī, d. 669/1270). No biographical source exists from his time. All that is known about him rests on oral and written traditions created later within the order, and these contain
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1290.pdf