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Folk religious beliefs and practices exist inBektashism.[1][2][3] While Bektashism was originally founded as an Islamic Sufi order,[4][5] it became widespread in theOttoman Empire, throughout Anatolia as well as in theBalkans, where it acquired beliefs and practices from manyfolk religions, mainly of theAlbanians and northernGreeks, and also from Anatolian and BalkanEastern Orthodox Christians andGnostics, and therefore Bektashism became asyncretic andperennialist Sufi order.[6] The other Balkan and Anatolian religious communities, such asChristians also had this habit of acquiring folk religious beliefs and practices.[7]
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