Bektashi Dedebabate

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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.

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, 8 months and 21 days

See also[]

• Baba (in Albanian)
• List of Bektashi topics (in Albanian)

References[]

External links[]

• Persecution of Bektashi clergy