Legendary biography of the founder of the Bektashi Order,
Ḥāǧǧī Bektāş Velī from Khorasan (Eastern
Iran/Afghanistan), written in Ottoman Turkish. The manuscript was
written by ʿAbdallāh Ibn Aḥmad el-Merzīfōnī and was
completed on 20. Ǧumādā II 1165 h. [= 5 May 1752]. It was part
of the collection of oriental manuscripts of the Islamic scholar
and turkologist Rudolf Tschudi (1884-1960), from where it came to
the University Library Basel.
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