Hurufijski pjesnik Vahdeti Bosnevi i njegov divan
Hurufi poet Vahdeti Bosnevi and his Diwan

Summary/Abstract: Although the heretic Hurufi sect, founded at the end of the 14th century in Iran, was from the very beginning exposed to ruthless persecutions, it survived until the middle of the 17th century, while its religious learning, modified and adapted to the learning of other brotherhoods (especially the Bektashi one) was maintained until the present day. By interpreting Kur'an in a highly esoteric way, (where very important issues were numeral values of particular letters of the Arabic-Persian alphabet and their mutual relations (thus the name »Hurufi« huruf-ar. letters) as well as the search for equivalents to these letters in the human face as the »second book of God«), the members of the sect provoked anger of religious puritans and representatives of official orthodoxy, this causing their tragic destiny, so that the founder of the order himself, Fazlullah Esterbadi was murdered in 1394.

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