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bektashi|a'n adj [Relig] of the Bektashi sect, Bektashian
bektash|i'zëm nm [Relig] Bektashi sect, a Sufi order of Islam founded by Hunqar Hajji Bektash in the 1 [3] th century, spreading during and after the 1 [5] th century to North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, and gaining particular importance in Albania in the 1 [9] th and 2 [0] th centuries; a Moslem sect characterized by religious and doctrinal liberalism and by personal commitment to pantheistic mysticism: Bektashiism
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