Widespread detentions and demolitions of property targeting Muslims in India have provoked concerns that right-wing Hindu nationalists are exploiting last week’s terrorist attack in Kashmir to ...

The Bektashi Order’s name comes from Haji Bektash Veli, a 13th century Sufi mystic. The belief system evolved to become a tolerant, humanistic syncretic combination of Shia Islam, Christianity ...

The Bektashi state could exert a similar kind of influence. “I think that even Muslims who may not want to accept the religious teachings of this group could still be inspired by the positive, ...

The Bektashi are ranked as the fourth-largest religious community in Albania, after Sunni Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and Catholics. And while the bureaucratic details of the state are still being ...

The future state would be located on land where a Bektashi temple already stands in Tirana, and will occupy just 0.11 of a square kilometre - making it the smallest country on earth.

The Bektashi are ranked as the fourth-largest religious community in Albania, after Sunni Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and Catholics.

ALBAWABA - A Muslim Albanian religious leader made an unexpected suggestion yesterday igniting wide debate on social media, he said that he wanted to form a Vatican-like state for Muslims.

Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi mystic order considered syncretic to both Sunni and Shia Muslims, with around 20 million adherents. Most of them are in Turkey, which expelled the Bektashi leadership ...

Pope Francis’s public audiences Thursday included a meeting with a delegation from Albania led by religious leader Dede Edmond Brahimaj, who is the leader of the Bektashi Muslims, with members ...

The Albanian Muslim Vatican would remind the world that Islam is far from monolithic and many interpretations of the religion coexist peacefully, as they should. The Bektashi order follows a mystical, ...