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PHILOSOPHER

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 403,573 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Haji Bektash Veli is the 373rd most popular philosopher (down from 338th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Iran (down from 98th 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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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Haji Bektash Veli ranks 373 out of 1,081. Before him are Masanobu Fukuoka, H. L. A. Hart, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Gennadius Scholarius, and Jean Gerson. After him are Gershom Scholem, John Philoponus, Pierre d'Ailly, Cleobulus, George Santayana, and Maurice Halbwachs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1209, Haji Bektash Veli ranks 5. Before him are Berke, Möngke Khan, Sancho II of Portugal, and Richard of Cornwall. 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, Michael II Komnenos Doukas, Stephen the Posthumous, Joan, Countess of Toulouse, Helena Angelina Doukaina, Alexios Strategopoulos, Vardan Areveltsi, and Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Haji Bektash Veli ranks 118 out of 528. Before him are Datis (-600), Ali Shariati (1933), Mohammad-Ali Rajai (1933), Qazi Muhammad (1893), Arses of Persia (-360), and Mulla Sadra (1571). After him are Artavasdes II of Armenia (-100), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Mehran Karimi Nasseri (1942), Istakhri (850), Sasan (200), and Suleiman of Persia (1647).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Haji Bektash Veli ranks 9. Before him are Bayazid Bastami (804), Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Miskawayh (932), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Mazdak (450), and Mulla Sadra (1571). After him are Al-Shahrastani (1086), Al-Baydawi (1201), Al-Taftazani (1322), Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), and Hossein Nasr (1933).

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