Poets and ashiks

Pir Sultan Abdal

Info

Summary from catalog editorial notes and public reference frames. Not reviewed scholarship. Affiliations describe what sources say, not private identity.

We do not infer religion or ethnicity from language or script alone.

Historical Alevi poet and ashik associated with 16th-century Central Anatolia in many sources; attribution of individual poems remains editorial.

Life dates ? – 1550 (circa)

Tradition tags turkish-folk, alevi-folk, ashik-tradition

Places

  • Active inSivas (1500–1550) · editorial hypothesis
  • Associated withDenizli · editorial hypothesis

    Banaz district within Denizli province in common Turkish folk reference works.

Affiliations (as described in sources)

  • Alevi-Bektashi poetic tradition (as described in Turkish folk sources) · documented in sources

    Framed as literary-religious tradition in sources, not inferred from text language alone.

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