Bektashi Dedebabate

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Bektashi Dedebabate is the religious leadership of Bektashi Islam. The dedebabas (Albanian: kryegjysh) are the spiritual and religious leaders of the Bektashi community.[1] Bektashis do not consider them as divinely appointed leaders. The current and eighth Bektashi debebaba is Baba Mondi.

List of dedebabas

List of dedebabas following the 1925 exodus of the Bektashi Order from Turkey to Albania:

No. Portrait Name Term in office
1 Salih Nijazi
(1876–1941)
20 March 1930[2] 28 November 1941
11 years, 8 months and 8 days
2 Ali Riza
(1882–1944)
6 January 1942 22 February 1944
2 years, 1 month and 16 days
3 Kamber Ali
(1869–1950)
12 April 1944 1945
0 or 1 year
4 Xhafer Sadik
(1874–1945)
5 May 1945 2 August 1945
2 months and 28 days
5 File:Ikonë Bektashiane.svg Abaz Hilmi
(1887–1947)
6 September 1945 19 March 1947
1 year, 6 months and 13 days
6 Ahmet Myftar
(1916–1980)
8 June 1947 1958
9 or 10 years
7 File:Ikonë Bektashiane.svg Baba Reshat
(1935–2011)
File:Baba Reshat (nënshkrim).svg
20 July 1993 2 April 2011
17 years, 8 months and 13 days
8 Baba Mondi
(born 1959)
File:Baba Mondi (nënshkrim).svg
11 June 2011 Incumbent
13 years, 7 months and 19 days

See also

References

  1. Elsie, Robert (2019). The Albanian Bektashi: history and culture of a Dervish order in the Balkans. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78831-569-2. OCLC 1108619669.
  2. Çuni, Nuri (28 January 2020). "Kryegjyshata Botrore Bektashiane/ Sot, 90-vjetori i ardhjes në Shqipëri të Kryegjyshit Botror të Bektashinjve, Sali Niazi Dedei. Kryegjyshi Botror, Haxhi Dede Edmond Brahimaj: Sot në Korçë zhvillohet aktiviteti për "Nderin e Kombit". Ja historia e plot e klerikut atdhetar". Gazeta Telegraf (in shqip).

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