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What is the Bektashi Order?

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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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