Abstract :
During the closure of Bektashi lodges in 1826, numerous documents were destroyed and it became quite difficult to get information about social life and cultural relations because of this reason. Kaygusuz Abdal Lodge, which was founded by Kaygusuz Abdal, who was an important character for Alevi and Bektashi society and left his mark on this belief for centuries, was shut down completely in 1957,after the dethronement of King Farouk by a team including Anwar Sadat with a military coup. Some of the documents, which belonged to the lodge, were donated to the library of University of Leiden in Netherlands by Frederick de Jong who went to Egypt for the purpose of research in 1970s. The manuscript that is subject to the article is one of those donated ones. Related document includes the information on one of the world’s leading Bektashi lodges, Kaygusuz Abdal Lodge, which was located in Cairo; last Post-nişîn’s (Leader of the lodge) of the Dargah (Lodge), names of the people those who abide, their country of origin, female and male quantities, places where religious ceremonies were held and the professions of the people. We believe that this study will contribute to elucidation of some benighted points on the lodge life from Hijri 1304 (Gregorian 1886) until –nearly closure of the lodge- 1950s.
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Kaygusuz Abdal Lodge , Mehmet Lutfi Baba (Father) , Ahmed Sırrı Baba (Father) , Bektashi Babaları (Fathers) , Bektashism
