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Pir Sultan Abdal (bornHaydar) was a prominent Turkish poet[1][2][3] and an important religious figure inAlevism ofTurkmen origin, who is thought to have been born in the village of Banaz in present-daySivas Province,Turkey. He is considered legendary among his followers. His life is reconstructed fromfolkloric sources, especially religious poems which are believed to have been composed by himself and transmitted byashiks.[4]
During theOttoman–Persian Wars, he supportedreligious heterodoxy and thepolitical subversion of Anatolia, and suffered execution by hanging as a consequence.[4]
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