Abdalan-ı Rum, historical - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Beldiceanu, Irène
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Abdalan-ı Rum (Ott. Turk. Abdālān-i Rūm, mod. Turk. Rum Abdallarıi, "Abdals of Rum"), is a compound term consisting of the word abdal/abdāl (with the Persian plural suffix -ān ) and the geographical name Rum (Rūm, referring to Anatolia in general and to an Ottoman province in northeastern Anatolia that included Çorum, Tokat, and Sivas). The term was made famous by the historian Aşıkpaşazade (ʿĀşıqpaşazāde) (d. after 896/1491, or, less likely, 908/1502) and was widely used for dervishes and Anatolian and even Rumelian Ṣūfīs, no one having