Bektashi Dedebabate

Bektashi Dedebabate (Arabic: بكتاشى ضدببا‎) is the religious leadership of Bektashi Islam. The dedebabas (Albanian: kryegjysh) are the spiritual and religious leaders of the Bektashi community.[1] Bektashis do not consider them as divinely appointed leaders. The current and eighth Bektashi debebaba is Baba Mondi.

Part of a series on the Bektashi Order
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Historical figures
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List of Dedebabas
No. Name Picture Lifespan Office held Notes
1 Salih Nijazi 1876–1941 20 March 1930[2] 28 November 1941 First Dedebaba
11 years, 8 months and 8 days
2 Ali Riza 1882–1944 6 January 1942 22 February 1944 Second Dedebaba
2 years, 1 month and 16 days
3 Kamber Ali 1869–1950 12 April 1944 1945 Third Dedebaba
0 or 1 year
4 Xhafer Sadik 1874–1945 5 May 1945 2 August 1945 Fourth Dedebaba
2 months and 28 days
5 Abaz Hilmi 1887–1947 6 September 1945 19 March 1947 Fifth Dedebaba
1 year, 6 months and 13 days
6 Ahmet Myftar 1916–1980 8 June 1947 1958 Sixth Dedebaba
9 or 10 years
7 Reshat Bardhi 1935–2011 20 July 1993 2 April 2011 Seventh Dedebaba
17 years, 8 months and 13 days
8 Edmond Brehimaj 1959–present 11 June 2011 Incumbent Former officer of Albanian Armed Forces. He opened the first Bektashi headquarter in Brussels.
10 years, 6 months and 1 day

See also

References
  1. Elsie, Robert (2019). The Albanian Bektashi: history and culture of a Dervish order in the Balkans. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78831-569-2. OCLC 1108619669.
  2. 90-vjetori i ardhjes në Shqipëri të Kryegjyshit Botror të Bektashinjve, Sali Niazi Dedei
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