Pir Sultan Abdal
Illustration — Pir Sultan Abdal Crucial figures Pir Sultan Abdal was a prominent Turkish poet and an important religious figure in Alevism of Turkmen origin, who is thought to have been born in the village of Banaz in present-day Sivas Province, Turkey. He is considered legendary among his followers. His life is reconstructed from folkloric sources, especially religious poems which are believed to have been composed by himself and transmitted by ashiks.
Pir Sultan Abdal
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- 1480 · Sivas.
- Died
- 1550 · Sivas.
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire
- Occupation
- writer · poet · singer
- Languages
- Ottoman Turkish
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Born at Sivas in 1480, died in Sivas in 1550.
The recorded working language is Ottoman Turkish.
Pir Sultan Abdal 'ın yaşadığı Banaz köyü Yıldızeli, Sivas ve Pir Sultan evi-türbesi.
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Pir Sultan Abdal 'ın yaşadığı Banaz köyü Yıldızeli, Sivas ve Pir Sultan evi-türbesi.
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1480
Pir Sultan Abdal was born on 1 January 1480.
1550
Pir Sultan Abdal died on 1 January 1550.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Halman, T. S. (2009). Popular Turkish love lyrics & folk legends (Syracuse University Press bas.). Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. s. 29. ISBN 9780815650980.
- 2.Koerbin, Paul V (July 2011). ‘I am Pir Sultan Abdal’ A Hermeneutical study of the self-naming tradition (Mahlas) in Turkish Alevi lyric song (Deyiş). University of Western Sydney - College of Arts. s. 1. Erişim tarihi: 24 December 2021. ...when I first encountered the songs of the Turkish Alevi poet Pir Sultan Abdal and other Turkish Alevi aşık-s...
- 3.a b Gülseren Özdemir. "Pîr Sultan Abdal Animizm İnançlar" (PDF). Çukurova University. 2 February 2014. Accessed: 5 November 2008.
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