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Dedebaba Humayun of Bektashi Order

Dedebaba Humayun of Bektashi Order (1222-) was the Dedebaba of the Bektashi Order during the mid-13th century.

Biography[]

Humayun was born in 1222 to a lowborn Sunni Muslim family of Persians, and he became the head of the Bektashi Oder of Sufi Islam. In 1260, he led an army of Muslims under Caliph al-Mustansir II during his jihad against the Ilkhanate.

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