Hacı Bektaş-ı Velis` sunderstanding Koran

ABSTRACTAlawite-Bektashism is a Sufi tradition that has roots in Central Asia. This movementwhich influences beliefs, worship, world, and cosmic view of Turkish populations in Asia andAnatolia, has a strong effect in our modern times. However, Alawite-Bektashism, in itsorigins, a Sufi movement with focuses of Koran and Sunna, in particular after 16th centuryand later, has become a different way for understanding and commenting on religiousdogmas. That mass that based on esoteric essence of religion, not its apparent remarks,previously has been accused of refutation and disdain of established religious observances.Religious identity and origins of that group which been accused of apparent symbols, and tobe based on essence of religion, has began to discuss recently. Also, using foreign religious andcultural elements to fill its essence and to gain a definition shows the difficulty of the problem.Thinking the best way of a tariqa?s religious understanding and comment is to dealwith its own guide (or ?Pir?), we try to study the method of understanding and commenting ofKoran in great works of Hacı Bektaş Veli with classical Sufism's commenting (turuq) way. Inthe study which consists of three chapters -life generally, Koran understanding andcommenting method, and creed, worship and observances- indeed, we based on Koranesoteric/notified meaning as Sufi commenting tradition while not excluding apparent remarksof religious dogmas within works of Hacı Bektaşi Veli.Consequently, if we eliminate the previous negative attitudes and current efforts to findsome different origins for Alawite-Bektashism, and study fundamental resources withoutprejudice, we believe former Sufi tradition, which based on essence of religion withoutexcluding its form, can be understood as an appendage of such tradition within AnatolianTurks.