Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!m2c!wpi.WPI.EDU!bigboote.wpi.edu!shari From: avrat@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ali Kodal) Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam Subject: Re: Bektasherish(?) Message-ID: <1991Jan28.155533.8896@wpi.WPI.EDU> Date: 28 Jan 91 15:55:33 GMT References: <1991Jan27.122131.15984@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@wpi.WPI.EDU (News) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 22 Approved: shari@wpi.wpi.edu Originator: shari@bigboote.wpi.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: bigboote.wpi.edu In article <1991Jan27.122131.15984@nntp-server.caltech.edu> mh52+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mohamed Adzlee Harun) writes: > >Assalamualaikum, > > I came across an interesting article about Muslims in Albania. In the >article, the writer mentioned about a sect called the Bektasherish(?) . >This sect , he wrote, was very influential in the country. >Does anyone know about the history of this sect? >Does it exist only in Albania? or the Balkans state? or in other part >of the Muslim world? > >Wassalam, >Mohamad Adzlee Harun Aleykum Selam In Turkey ,in the past there was people called Bektashi.I am not sure if they still exist.And in Turkey they don't considered as strong muslim. I don't have much information, sorry. Ali Kodal