Seyyid Ali Sultan’ın izini sürmek: Makedonya’da Bektaşi tekkeleri ve Bektaşiler

Undoubtedly, Bektashism is one of the most influential Sufi movements in the Balkans. For the Bektashi order, the Balkans had and has been of primary importance. For this reason, Bektashism has a special place in the cultural, social and political life of its inhabitants among the existing orders to which the people living in the Balkans and especially in the Albanian regions belong. The influence of the Bektashis on the Albanians, who have the largest population among the Muslims living in Macedonia, is very much and is a research topic in itself. It is possible to say that Bektashism settled in the Balkans in two ways. The first is at the beginning of the XIII. century, the wandering dervishes before the Ottomans came to these regions settled in empty and secluded lands and built their tekkes The second aspect of the spread of Bektashism in Macedonia was through the Bektashi fathers who came gradually and on different occasions after the Ottomans had completely conquered these places. Seyyid Ali Sultan, one of the most famous traveler dervishes of this early Bektashi path, preached in Eastern Greece, Eastern Bulgaria and Southern Romania, telling people about Islam and Bektashism. Later, this process continued with the settlement of the Bektashi fathers, who flocked to the Albanian regions, especially with the closure of the Bektashi tekkes in 1826.