TURK KULTURU VE HACI BEKTAS VELI-ARASTIRMA DERGISI, sa.61, ss.187-206, 2012 (AHCI)
Haci Bektash Veli is a big sufi-thinker who has a very important place in our history of culture and civilization. He had an important role in the process of Islamization and Turkization of Anatolia. He has left permanent traces and his influences have been felt on over wide community sections for many centuries. In addition to this, he is accepted as a spiritual guide from Alawi/Bektashi communities. Ahi Evran, exactly like Haci Bektash Veil, is a big folk thinker and spiritual guide who had lived in the same period in Anatolia and acted on the important social activities. He had got an important role in establishment and development of Ahism and its organization in varied regions in Anatolia.