Baba Abdullah Melçani was a 19th-century Albanian Bektashi baba and a bejtexhi (poet) who wrote in Albanian (R. Elsie, The Albanian Bektashi, 2019; F. A. Turan, "Bektashi Tekkes in Albania", 2018). He led the Melçan tekke near Korçë (founded in 1640 by Hysen Ali Dede) for about forty years and died in 1852. The oldest and only surviving fortified (walled) Bektashi lodge in Albania became a center of the Albanian national awakening in his era and served as the de facto Bektashi headquarters in the 1920s.