A 15th-century saint regarded as one of the Kalenderî dervishes who came to Anatolia. His life is recorded in the 'Menâkıb-ı Pîrî Baba' by Hoca İbrâhim and Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatnâme, with his lodge documented in the 1520 and 1574-75 Ottoman tax registers. His tomb is in the Nusratiye (Tekke) neighborhood of Merzifon, restored in 1977. (Sources: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi 'Pîrî Baba'; Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâme)
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- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) · entry “Pîrî Baba”
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