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Haji Bektash Veli

1209 - 1271

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Haji Bektash Veli (Persian: حاجی بکتاش ولی, romanized: Ḥājī Baktāš Walī; Ottoman Turkish: حاجی بکتاش ولی, romanized: Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli; Albanian: Haxhi Bektash Veliu; c. 1209–1271) was an Islamic scholar, mystic, saint, sayyid, and philosopher from Khorasan who lived and taught in Anatolia. His original name was Sayyid Muhammad ibn Sayyid Ibrāhim Ātā. He is also referred to as the "Sultan of Hearts" and the "Dervish of the Dervishes". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Haji Bektash Veli has received more than 433,911 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Haji Bektash Veli is the 353rd most popular philosopher (up from 373rd in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Iran (up from 118th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iranian Philosopher.

Haji Bektash Veli is most famous for the Bektashi Order, a Sufi order of Islam.

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  • 2.76

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Haji Bektash Veli ranks 353 out of 1,267. Before him are Gaius Musonius Rufus, Günther Anders, Maurice Halbwachs, Otto Neurath, Pietro Pomponazzi, and Isaac Abarbanel. After him are Juan Luis Vives, Jacques Rancière, Strato of Lampsacus, Edward de Bono, Macrobius, and Wilhelm Windelband.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1209, Haji Bektash Veli ranks 5. Before him are Berke, Möngke Khan, Richard of Cornwall, and Sancho II of Portugal. After him is Valdemar the Young. Among people deceased in 1271, Haji Bektash Veli ranks 2. Before him is Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France. After him are Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, Isabella of France, Queen of Navarre, Stephen the Posthumous, Michael II Komnenos Doukas, Helena Angelina Doukaina, Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq, Joan, Countess of Toulouse, Alexios Strategopoulos, Vardan Areveltsi, and Margaret of France, Duchess of Brabant.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Haji Bektash Veli ranks 116 out of 631. Before him are Qazi Muhammad (1893), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Yazdegerd II (500), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Mohammad Shah Qajar (1808), and Abu Hanifa Dinawari (815). After him are Bardiya (-580), Karim Khan Zand (1705), Narges Mohammadi (1972), Arses of Persia (-360), Mehran Karimi Nasseri (1942), and Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar (1853).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Haji Bektash Veli ranks 9. Before him are Bodhidharma (483), Bayazid Bastami (804), Miskawayh (932), Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Mazdak (450), and Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155). After him are Mulla Sadra (1571), Al-Baydawi (1201), Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892), Al-Taftazani (1322), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), and Hossein Nasr (1933).

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