Balım Sultan (d. circa 1517/1519) was a Turcoman Bektashi sufi who established and codified the Bektashi Order at the beginning of the 16th century. The...

and rituals of the Bektashi order were systematized and structured by Balım Sultan in the 16th century. According to a 2005 estimate made by Reshat Bardhi...

Also included are hymns (nefes) by figures such as Shah Ismail or Pir Sultan Abdal, stories of Hajji Bektash and other lore. The Alevi beliefs among...

Sayyid Muhammad ibn Sayyid Ibrāhim Ātā. He is also referred to as the "Sultan of Hearts" and the "Dervish of the Dervishes". He is revered among Alevis...

Pir Sultan Abdal (born Haydar) is an important religious figure in Alevism of Turkmen origin, who is thought to have been born in the village of Banaz...

Naqshband (1318–1389, buried in Bukhara, founder of the Naqshbandi order) Balım Sultan (d. 1517/1519, buried in Nevşehir Province, co-founder of the Bektashi...

Gjyshes by the Gjyshes themselves. Teqe of Bulqiza, Bulqizë Teqe of Balim Sultan, Martanesh Teqe of Haxhi Hysen Baba, Martanesh Tyrbe of Baba Hysen, Zërqan...

culminating in a general Anatolian uprising against the Ottomans, whose Sultan Bayezid II mounted a major expedition 1502–1503 which pushed the Safavids...

ad-Dīn Haydar – Malamatiyya / Qalandariyya Baba Ishak – Babai revolt Balım Sultan – Bektashi Order Galip Hassan Kuscuoglu – Rifa`i / Galibi Order Muʿtazila...

to Bulgaria from Central Anatolia after the 1512 victory by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I, a Sunni, over the first, part-Turcoman Safavid shah of the Persians...