Upon İsmet Kırdar’s Novel Hacı Bektaş Velî

Bektaşilik, which was established in Sulucakarahöyük as the central and improved by Hacı Bektaş Veli after his coming from Central Asia to Anatolia and providing unity and integrity in Anatolia, has been a subject matter to the literary work in the context of intertextuality and in order to presented a representative type of Hacı Bektaş Veli. İsmet Kırdar’s comic book, is one of these works. In Hacı Bektaş Velî, character types, legendary life, historical aspect, nationalism, Bektaşilik, and collective memory are abundant. According to this, Hacı Bektaş Veli, conveys features of an exalted “veli type,” which is among idealized types. There are proximal connections between his legendary life and his life in the novel and between the official history and the history in the novel. In the novel Hacı Bektaş Velî, Hacı Bektaş Veli is portrayed as a figure that have Turkishİslamic consciousness. The novel, which includes various elements of Bektaşilik, also indicates Hacı Bektaş Veli’s position in the society in terms of collective memory. Therefore, the aim of this article is both to introduce a less known novel and to analyze elements of Bektaşilik with respect to literary appreciation