Pir Sultan Abdal

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Pir Sultan Abdal

Pir Sultan Abdal (born Haydar) was a prominent Turkish poet [1] [2] [3] and an important religious figure in Alevism of Turkmen origin, who is thought to have been born in the village of Banaz in present-day Sivas Province, Turkey. He is considered legendary among his followers. His life is reconstructed from folkloric sources, especially religious poems which are believed to have been composed by himself and transmitted by ashiks. [4]

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During the Ottoman–Persian Wars, he supported religious heterodoxy and the political subversion of Anatolia, and suffered execution by hanging as a consequence. [4]

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  1. Halman, T. S. (2009). Popular Turkish love lyrics & folk legends (Syracuse University Press bas.). Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. s. 29. ISBN 9780815650980.
  2. Koerbin, Paul V (July 2011). ‘I am Pir Sultan Abdal’ A Hermeneutical study of the self-naming tradition (Mahlas) in Turkish Alevi lyric song (Deyiş). University of Western Sydney - College of Arts. s. 1. Erişim tarihi: 24 December 2021. ...when I first encountered the songs of the Turkish Alevi poet Pir Sultan Abdal and other Turkish Alevi aşık-s...
  3. a b Gülseren Özdemir. "Pîr Sultan Abdal Animizm İnançlar" (PDF). Çukurova University. 2 February 2014. Accessed: 5 November 2008.
  4. 1 2 O'Connell 2013.

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