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  2. Turco-Mongol tradition - Wikipedia

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    The Turco-Mongol or Turko-Mongol tradition was an ethnocultural synthesis that arose in Asia during the 14th century among the ruling elites of the Golden Horde and the Chagatai Khanate. The ruling Mongol elites of these khanates eventually assimilated into the Turkic populations that they conquered and ruled over, thus becoming known as Turco ...

  3. Turkic mythology - Wikipedia

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    The 9th-century Irk Bitig ("Book of Divination") from Dunhuang, written in Old Uyghur language with the Orkhon script, is an important literary source for early Turko-Mongol mythology. Turko-Mongol mythology is essentially polytheistic but became more monotheistic during the imperial period among the ruling class, and was centered around the ...

  4. Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order - Wikipedia

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    The Bektashi Order is a Sufi order, originating in the 13th-century Ottoman Empire. [5] Origins of the community point towards the Kızılbaş and Alevism. As the Janissaries became a dominant force in Ottoman politics, they adopted Bektashism as the corps' religion, while Sunni Islam dominated the Muslim millet.

  5. Turco-Persian tradition - Wikipedia

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    The composite Turko-Persian, Turco-Persian, [1] or Turco-Iranian (Persian: فرهنگ ایرانی-ترکی) is the distinctive culture that arose in the 9th and 10th centuries AD in Khorasan and Transoxiana (present-day Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and minor parts of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). [2]

  6. List of founders of religious traditions - Wikipedia

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    Bektashi Order of Sufism: 1209–1271 Nichiren: Nichiren Buddhism: 1222–1282 Abraham Abulafia: Prophetic Kabbalah, a.k.a. ecstatic Kabbalah: 1240–1290s Dyaneshwar: Varkari: 1275–1296 Madhvacharya: Dvaita: 1238–1317 John Wycliffe: Lollardy: 1320s–1384 Fażlu l-Lāh Astar-Ābādī: Hurufism: 14th century Mahmoud Pasikhani: Nuqṭawism ...

  7. Amir Khusrau - Wikipedia

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    A Turko-Afghan named Jalal ud-Din Firuz Khalji then marched on Delhi, killed Qaiqabad and became Sultan, thus ending the Mamluk dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate and starting the Khalji dynasty. Jalal ud-Din Firuz Khalji appreciated poetry and invited many poets to his court. Khusrau was honoured and respected in his court and was given the title ...

  8. List of Pashtun empires and dynasties - Wikipedia

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    Khalji dynasty (Bengal) (1204—1231) Bakhtiyar Khalji was a Turko-Afghan general of the Ghurid Empire. [12] [13] The Khaljis ruled Bengal until 1227 before they were deposed from power and integrated as a province of the Delhi Sultanate under the Mamluk dynasty. The Khaljis returned to power briefly in 1229 but were again deposed from power in ...

  9. Bektashism - Wikipedia

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    The most recent head of the order in Albania was Hajji Reshat Bardhi Dedebaba (1935–2011) and the main tekke has been reopened in Tirana. In June 2011 Baba Edmond Brahimaj was chosen as the head of the Bektashian order by a council of Albanian babas. Today sympathy for the order is generally widespread in Albania where approximately 20% of ...