Bektashi Dedebabate

Bektashi Dedebabate (Arabic: بكتاشى ضدببا) is the religious leadership of Bektashi Islam. The dedebabas (Albanian: kryegjysh) are the spiritual and religious leaders of the Bektashi community.^[1] Bektashis do not consider them as divinely appointed leaders. The current and eighth Bektashi debebaba is Baba Mondi.

List of dedebabas[edit]

List of dedebabas following the 1925 exodus of the Bektashi Order from Turkey to Albania:

No.	Name	Term in office
1	Salih Nijazi (1876–1941)	20 March 1930^[2]	28 November 1941
1	Salih Nijazi (1876–1941)	11 years, 8 months and 8 days
2	Ali Riza (1882–1944)	6 January 1942	22 February 1944
2	Ali Riza (1882–1944)	2 years, 1 month and 16 days
3	Kamber Ali (1869–1950)	12 April 1944	1945
3	Kamber Ali (1869–1950)	0 or 1 year
4	Xhafer Sadik (1874–1945)	5 May 1945	2 August 1945
4	Xhafer Sadik (1874–1945)	2 months and 28 days
5	Abaz Hilmi (1887–1947)	6 September 1945	19 March 1947
5	Abaz Hilmi (1887–1947)	1 year, 6 months and 13 days
6	Ahmet Myftar (1916–1980)	8 June 1947	1958
6	Ahmet Myftar (1916–1980)	9 or 10 years
7	Baba Reshat (1935–2011)	20 July 1993	2 April 2011
7	Baba Reshat (1935–2011)	17 years, 8 months and 13 days
8	Baba Mondi (born 1959)	11 June 2011	Incumbent
8	Baba Mondi (born 1959)	12 years, 10 months and 10 days