Hacı Bayram-ı Veli - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ocak, Ahmet Yaşar
Leiden
Brill
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Hacı Bayram-ı Veli (Ḥāccī Bayrām-ı Velī) (749?-833/1348?-1430) was the founder of the (Bayrāmī) tarika ( ṭarīqa , lit., "way," i.e., Ṣūfī order), which inspired the later (Melāmī) order (formed shortly after Hacı Bayram's death, and whose members have worn since the origin the normal clothes of their day, and are followers of the doctrine of the "oneness of being" (waḥdat al-wujūd) going back to the teachings of the famous mystic of Andalusian origin Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240 in Damscus). There are no extant