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Author : John K. Birge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)
Download or read book The Bektashi Order of Dervishes written by John K. Birge and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Kingsley Birge
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bektashi Order of Dervishes written by John Kingsley Birge and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788315715
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Albanian Bektashi written by Robert Elsie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bektashi dervish order is a Sufi Alevite sect found in Anatolia and the Balkans with a strong presence in Albania. In this, his final book, Robert Elsie analyses the Albanian Bektashi and considers their role in the country's history and society. Although much has been written on the Bektashi in Turkey, little has appeared on the Albanian branch of the sect. Robert Elsie considers the history and culture of the Bektashi, analyses writings on the order by early travellers to the region such as Margaret Hasluck and Sir Arthur Evans and provides a comprehensive list of tekkes (convents) and tyrbes (shrines) in Albania and neighbouring countries. Finally he presents a catalogue of notable Albanian Bektashi figures in history and legend. This book provides a complete reference guide to the Bektashi in Albania which will be essential reading for scholars of the Balkans, Islamic sects and Albanian history and culture.
Author : Baba Rexheb
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1983153850
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Islamic Mysticism and the Bektashi Path written by Baba Rexheb and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bektashi Way is profoundly simple yet perplexingly complex, striking in its boldness yet gracious in its subtlety; consequently, while shining forth brightly it still is seemingly cloaked in obscurity. There have been attempts to gather its history, characteristic ideas, and observable aspects together and to elucidate its inner wisdom in prose, but few of these attempts have been made by knowledgeable insiders, and even fewer of these have been made in English. This full translation of Baba Rexheb's Islamic Mysticism and the Bektashi Path from its original Albanian is thus a unique addition to the literature on Bektashism in English, and a boon to those who seek to know more about this clearly enigmatic way." --- Vafi Baba
Author : Albert Doja
Publisher : AIIS Press
ISBN 13 : 9994374281
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (943 download)
Download or read book Bektashism in Albania written by Albert Doja and published by AIIS Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Heterodox mystics and heretics of any kind become sometimes dangerous and other times reliable, depending on political situations, as was the case with the Bektashis. The system of beliefs and practices related to Bektashism seems to have corresponded to a kind of liberation theology, whereas the structure of Bektashi groups corresponded more or less to the type of religious organization conventionally known as charismatic groups. It becomes understandable therefore that their spiritual tendency could at times connect with and meet social, cultural and national perspectives. In turn, when members of the previously persecuted religious minority will acquire a degree of religious and political respectability within society at large, the doctrines of heterodoxy and liberation theology fade into the background. In the end, the heirs of the heterodox promoters of spiritual reform and social movement turn into followers and faithful defenders of a legitimate authority. They become the sp
Author : Frances Trix
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1934536547
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb written by Frances Trix and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baba Rexheb, a Muslim mystic from the Balkans, founded the first Bektashi community in America. This is his life story and the story of his communities: the traditional Bektashi tekke in Albania where he first served, the displaced persons camps to which he escaped after the war, the centuries-old tekke in Cairo where he waited, and the Bektashi community that he founded in Michigan in 1954 and led until his passing in 1995. Baba Rexheb lived through the twentieth century, its wars, disruptions, and dislocations, but still at a profound level was never displaced. Through Bektashi stories, oral histories, and ethnographic experience, Frances Trix recounts the life and times of this modern Sufi leader. She studied with Baba Rexheb in his community for more than twenty years. As a linguistic anthropologist, she taped twelve years of their weekly meetings in Turkish, Albanian, and Arabic. She draws extensively on Baba's own words, as well as interactions at the Michigan Bektashi center, for a remarkable perspective on our times. You come to know Baba Rexheb and his gentle way of teaching through example and parable, poetry and humor. The book also documents the history of the 700-year-old Bektashi order in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Balkans and Egypt and its transposition to America. It attests to the role of Sufi centers in Islamic community life and their interaction with people of other faiths.
Author : Zeynep Yürekli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317179412
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire written by Zeynep Yürekli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a thorough examination of buildings, inscriptions, archival documents and hagiographies, this book uncovers the political significance of Bektashi shrines in the Ottoman imperial age. It thus provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the formative process of the Bektashi order, which started out as a network of social groups that took issue with Ottoman imperial policies in the late fifteenth century, was endorsed imperially as part of Bayezid II's (r. 1481-1512) soft power policy, and was kept in check by imperial authorities as the Ottoman approach to the Safavid conflict hardened during the rest of the sixteenth century. This book demonstrates that it was a combination of two collective activities that established the primary parameters of Bektashi culture from the late fifteenth century onwards. One was the writing of Bektashi hagiographies; they linked hitherto distinct social groups (such as wandering dervishes and warriors) with each other through the lives of historical figures who were their patron saints, idols and identity markers (such as the saint Hacı Bektaş and the martyr Seyyid Gazi), while incorporating them into Ottoman history in creative ways. The other one was the architectural remodelling of the saints' shrines. In terms of style, imagery and content, this interrelated literary and architectural output reveals a complicated process of negotiation with the imperial order and its cultural paradigms. Examined in more detail in the book are the shrines of Seyyid Gazi and Hacı Bektaş and associated legends and hagiographies. Though established as independent institutions in medieval Anatolia, they were joined in the emerging Bektashi network under the Ottomans, became its principal centres and underwent radical architectural transformation, mainly under the patronage of raider commanders based in the Balkans. In the process, they thus came to occupy an intermediary socio-political zone between the Ottoman empire and its contestants in the sixteenth century.
Author : Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900441584X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes written by Buket Kitapçı Bayrı and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change on Byzantine territories between thirteenth and fifteenth centuries through intersecting stories on Turkish Muslim warriors, dervishes, and Byzantine martyrs.
Author : Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dervishes of Turkey written by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1912, The Dervishes of Turkey presents information collected in Ottoman Turkey in the early part of this century about the dervish orders as Ms. Garnett perceived them. In the foreword, O.M. Burke describes three types of books about Sufism: books written by the Sufis themselves - past and present - which are intended to instruct; books by "outsiders," such as Orientalists, who "are never aware of the method of extracting currently relevant materials from traditional ones;" and what he calls "museum materials" - superseded manifestations of Sufism on which imitators in both East and West have tried to build whole schools and orders. According to Burke, The Dervishes of Turkey, a major source for many Orientalists, combines the faults and virtues of the latter two.
Author : Tord Olsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135797242
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Alevi Identity written by Tord Olsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rising momentum for new and reformulated cultural identities, the Turkish Alevi have also emerged on the scene, demanding due recognition. In this process a number of dramatic events have served as important milestones: the clashes between Sunni and Alevi in Kahramanmaras in 1979 and Corum in 1980, the incendiarism in Sivas in 1992, and the riots in Istanbul (Gaziosmanpasa) in 1995. Less evocative, but in the long run more significant, has been the rising interest in Alevi folklore and religious practices. Questions have also arisen as to what this branch of Islamic heterodoxy represents in terms of old and new identities. In this book, these questions are addressed by some of the most prominent scholars in the field.
Author : Miranda Vickers
Publisher : Defence Academy of United Kingdom Conflict Studies Research
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Islam in Albania written by Miranda Vickers and published by Defence Academy of United Kingdom Conflict Studies Research. This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically Albanians have practised a traditional, tolerant form of Sunni and Bektashi Islam. Now a third more radical interpretation of Islam is gradually being introduced by young Albanians who have studied abroad in Islamic countries.
Author : J. Spencer Trimingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198028237
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Sufi Orders in Islam written by J. Spencer Trimingham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufism, the name given to Islamic mysticism, has been the subject of many studies, but the orders through which the organizational aspect of the Sufi spirit was expressed has been neglected. The Sufi Orders in Islam is one of the earliest modern examinations of the historical development of Sufism and is considered a classic work in numerous sources of Islamic studies today. Here, author J. Spencer Trimingham offers a clear and detailed account of the formation and development of the Sufi schools and orders (tariqahs) from the second century of Islam until modern times. Trimingham focuses on the practical disciplines behind the mystical aspects of Sufism which initially attracted a Western audience. He shows how Sufism developed and changed, traces its relationship to the unfolding and spread of mystical ideas, and describes in sharp detail its rituals and ceremonial practices. Finally, he assesses the influence of these Sufi orders upon Islamic society in general. John O. Voll has added a new introduction to this classic text and provides readers with an updated list of further reading. The Sufi Orders in Islam will appeal not only to those already familiar with Triminghams groundbreaking research, but also to the growing reading public of Islamic studies and mysticism.
Author : Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620550016
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Secret Practices of the Sufi Freemasons written by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the secret spiritual exercises of the Bektashi Order of Sufis • Shows how this order, also known as Oriental Freemasonry, preserves the ancient spiritual doctrines forgotten by modern Freemasonry • Explains how to transform the soul into the alchemical Magnum Opus by combining Masonic grips and the abbreviated letters of the Qur’an • Includes a detailed biography of Baron von Sebottendorff Originally published in Germany in 1924, this rare book by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff reveals the secret spiritual exercises of the Bektashi Order of Sufis as well as how this order, also known as Oriental Freemasonry, preserves the ancient spiritual doctrines forgotten by modern Freemasonry. Sebottendorff explains how the mysterious abbreviated letters found in the Qur’an represent formulas for perfecting the spirit of the individual. When combined with Masonic hand signs and grips and conducted accordingly to a precise schedule, these formulas incorporate spiritual power into the body and transform the soul from its base state into a noble, godlike state: the Magnum Opus of the medieval alchemists. Laying out the complete program of spiritual exercises, Sebottendorff explains each abbreviated word-formula in the Qur’an, the hand gestures that go with them, and the exact order and duration for each exercise. Including a detailed biography of Sebottendorff and an examination of alchemy’s Islamic heritage, this book shows how the traditions of Oriental Freemasonry can ennoble the self and lead to higher knowledge.
Author : John Kingsley Birge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Bektashi Order of Dervishes written by John Kingsley Birge and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Granville Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Further Notes on the Literature of the Hurufis and Their Connection with the Bektashi Order of the Dervishes written by Edward Granville Browne and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward G. Browne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331546422
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Further Notes on the Literature of the Hurufis and Their Connection with the Bektashi Order of Dervishes (Classic Reprint) written by Edward G. Browne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Further Notes on the Literature of the Hurufis and Their Connection With the Bektashi Order of Dervishes The author next enumerates their chief heresies and the wiles whereby they seek to mislead simple-minded Muslims. He says that they believe in the divinity of Fadlu'llah, and regard the Deity as a power which manifested itself through Moses, Jesus, and all the great Prophets, and revealed the Scriptures which they brought, though it did not reveal their true allegorical meaning until it appeared in person as Fadlu'llah in the year a.h. 800 (z a.i). 1397 - 8) at Astarabad in Persia, bringing the Jdm'a'dn, which contained the true explanation of all the revealed books which had preceded it. This being their actual belief, they pretend to be Shi'ites and devoted admirers of the Prophetic Household, declaring love of the Prophet's family to be the root of the matter, and the sins of him who loves 'ali to be venial. Thus they accustom their neophytes to neglect prayer and fasting and to indulge in forbidden practices, like the drinking of wine, and only when they are well assured of their infidelity, to quote our author's words, do they teach them that blasphemous heresy which they call the Secret, ' since in fact there is in the Jdoz'a'dns no mention of the name of anyone connected with the Holy Family; only, in order to attract the Shi'ites, they say that He who appeared in the form of'. Ali was again Fadl the Huri'ifi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814722145
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (221 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture written by Robert Elsie and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some senses, Albania is a living museum of the past. Originally a small herding community in the most inaccessible reaches of the Balkans, the presence of Albanians in southeastern Europe has been documented for over a thousand years. Albanian traditional folk culture, which evolved over centuries of relative isolation, is surprisingly rich. Yet despite recent events this culture remains little known to the Western world. Due to the lasting effects of a half century of Stalinist dictatorship, very few individuals even in Albania know much about their own popular traditions. The Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture makes available for the first time a wealth of knowledge about Albanian popular belief and folk customs. Alphabetical entries shed light on blood feuding, figures of Albanian mythology, religious beliefs, communities, and sects, calendar feasts and rituals, and popular superstitions, as well as birth, marriage, and funeral customs, and sexual mores. This unique volume will stand as the standard reference work on the subject for years to come.
