Pir Sultan Abdal (born Haydar) was a prominent Turkish poeta b Gülseren Özdemir. "Pîr Sultan Abdal Animizm İnançlar" (PDF). Çukurova University. 2 February 2014. Accessed: 5 November 2008. and an important religious figure in

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origin, who is thought to have been born in the village of Banaz in present-day

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. He is considered legendary among his followers. His life is reconstructed from

folkloric Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales, myths, legends, proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also includes material ...

sources, especially religious poems which are believed to have been composed by himself and transmitted by

ashiks An ashik (; ) or ashugh (; ka, :ka:აშუღი, აშუღი) is traditionally a List of oral repositories, singer-poet and bard who accompanies his song—be it a dastan (traditional epic story, also known as ''Azeri hikaye, hikaye' ...

. During the

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, he supported religious heterodoxy and the

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of Anatolia, and suffered execution by hanging as a consequence.

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