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    The Arabati Baba Tekḱe (Macedonian: Арабати баба-теќе, Albanian: Teqeja e Baba Harabatit, Turkish: Harabati Baba Tekkesi) is an Ottoman takya located in...
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    Following the death of Baba Tahir Emini, the dedelik of Tirana appointed Baba Edmond Brahimaj (Baba Mondi), formerly head of the Turan Tekke [sq] of Korçë, to...
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    Hasan Baba Tekke (Greek: Τεκές Χασάν Μπαμπά) is a former tekke (a house for the gathering of dervishes) in the Vale of Tempe, Greece. The tekke is a large...
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    Nasibi Baba of Frashër (d. 1835) Tahir Baba of Prishta (19th century) Xhafer Sadiku, Dede Baba (1874–1945) Arabati Baba Tekke, in Tetovo Bektashi tekke of...
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    religious name Baba Rexheb, was an Albanian Islamic scholar and Sufi. He was the founder and the head of the Bektashi Sufi lodge (tekke) located in Taylor...
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  • Thumbnail for Teqe of Baba Ali
    The Teqe of Baba Ali (Albanian: Teqeja e Baba Aliut) or Teqe of Baba Abdullah is a Bektashi tekke in the village of Alipostivan, Qendër Piskovë, Përmet...
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  • of Macedonia invaded the Shiʻi Bektashi Order's Arabati Baba Tekke in an attempt to claim the Shia tekke as a mosque for their followers, although the facility...
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    The Zall Tekke (Albanian: Teqeja e Zallit) or Asim Baba Tekke (Turkish: Âsım Baba Tekkesi) is a Bektashi teqe in Gjirokastër, Albania. It is a Cultural...
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    Durbalı Sultan Tekke (Greek: Τεκές Ντουρμπαλή Σουλτάν), also known as Tekke of Asprogeia (Τεκές των Ασπρογείων) or Ireni Tekke, was an Alevi tekke (a house...
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  • Thumbnail for Tekke of Frashër
    The Tekke of Frashër (Albanian: Teqeja e Frashërit) or Nasibî Tâhir Baba Tekke is a Bektashi shrine and Albanian Bektashi tekke founded in 1781 and registered...
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    an ancient Thracian holy site from the 4th century BC. A cult complex (tekke) gradually emerged around the türbe. This included a holy spring, a mosque...
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  • was received by Baba Rexheb and senior clerics of other faiths. Baba Rexheb was responsible for establishing the first Bektashi Tekke in America in 1954...
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    moment) and a Bektashi tekke dedicated to Kasim Baba were both located in Kastoria. An Ottoman register recorded the existence of the tekke (late sixteenth century)...
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  • common name "Otman Baba" to Ottoman ruler Mehmed II. When the sultan disguised himself as a commoner and visited the Eski Saray tekke (a gathering place...
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  • muhib (Sufi disciple) at the tekke of Prishta by Baba Shaban, later becoming a dervish at the same tekke. At the tekke of Prishta, he became known as...
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    the same fate. The babas of the tekkes and their dervishes were banished to staunchly Sunni villages and towns, and their tekkes were closed or handed...
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  • is based on Elsie (2019). Arabati Baba Tekke, in Tetovo Tomb of Gül Baba in the Buda part of Budapest, Hungary Bektashi Tekke in Gjakova (Đakovica), Kosovo...
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  • Teqe of Bulqiza (category Sufi tekkes in Albania)
    Bulqiza or Tekke of Bulqiza (Albanian: Teqeja e Bulqizës) is a Bektashi tekke in the town of Bulqiza. It was founded in the nineteenth century by Baba Fejzë...
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  • janissaries were indeed Albanians. Legend holds that the tekke (teqe in Albanian) of Sersem Ali Baba in Tetova of today's North Macedonia was founded in the...
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    house. The museum was established in 1950, originally situated in the Arabati Baba Tekke complex. It contains archaeological, ethnological, historical, and...
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    1800, the tekke was most likely built to replace an earlier one by Baba Aliu, head of the Zall Tekke, but some sources date it to 1870. Baba Aliu's tomb...
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    Gül Baba's tomb (türbe) in Budapest, Hungary, is the northernmost Islamic pilgrimage site in the world. The mausoleum is located in the district of Rózsadomb...
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  • Baba Shaban at the tekke of Baba Tahir in Prishta, Skrapar. He and Baba Shaban fled the tekke in January 1914, when Greece occupied Albanian tekkes and...
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    the tekke in Fushë Krujë, after which he served as a dervish in Martanesh. Baba Ahmet Turani then appointed him as the baba of Baba Hamit Tekke in Elbasan...
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    in Turkey. He also served at the tekke of Përmet and was appointed as the baba (leader) of the tekke in 1920 by Baba Ahmet of Turan. During World War...
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    in Durrës. After the war, He served as a baba in Vlora from October 1945 to 1948 at the tekke of Kusum Baba. After the murder-suicide of Abaz Hilmi in...
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  • Teqe of Bllaca (category Sufi tekkes in Albania)
    The Teqe of Baba Isuf (Albanian: Teqeja e Baba Isufit) or Teqe of Bllaca (Albanian: Teqeja e Bllacës) is a Bektashi tekke in the village of Bllacë, Dibër...
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    that of baba. The baba (lit. father) is considered to be the head of a tekke and qualified to give spiritual guidance (irshad إرشاد). Above the baba is the...
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  • debebaba is Baba Mondi. List of dedebabas following the 1925 exodus of the Bektashi Order from Turkey to Albania: Dede (religious figure) Baba (in Albanian)...
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    Dede. However, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk banned all dervish orders and their tekkes in 1925 as part of the secularization of Turkey. He unsuccessfully appealed...
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