Mehmet Mustafa Dede - Şah-ı Merdan

Song Name: Şah-ı Merdan

By: Mehmet Mustafa Dede

Country: Turkey

Song Local Name: Not available

Album: Not available

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Genre: Alevi song , alevi deyiş

Date Added: 04 Apr 2020

Discovered By: ghostdog

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Şah-ı Merdan by Mehmet Mustafa Dede is part of folk music tradition in/by Turkey. Folk Music of Turkey is traditionally brother to some other region(s) in the world. If you want to listen to song(s) in the same genre or with the same root with Şah-ı Merdan (or folk music of Turkey), other than checking Turkey you can also check music of Iran, Greece and Iraq. From the top menu, first choose the desired region and then find the link from the map or country list.

Şah-ı Merdan is an Alevi song by Mehmet Mustafa Dede, an obscure Alevi spiritual mentor and musician, in praise of Imam Ali, cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who ruled as the fourth caliph, but is regarded as the rightful immediate successor to Muhammad as an Imam by Shia Muslims. He is the most important figure in Alevism, a local Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical teachings of Ali, the Twelve Imams and a descendant -the 13th century Alevi saint Haji Bektash Veli.

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