Haji Bektash Veli

Anatolian Muslim mystic (1209–1271)

Haji Bektash Veli wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.

The record lists Haji Bektash Veli as Anatolian Muslim mystic (1209–1271).

Haji Bektash Veli was born at Nishapur in 1209.

Thought in this period moved between the Islamic world, the Jewish communities and the Latin West, and the same texts were argued over in three traditions.

Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.

Haji Bektash Veli died in 1271, aged 62. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.

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