Sarı Saltık

Saltık
صالتق
Bust of Sari Saltik in Kruje, Albania.
Personal life
BornUnknown,
possibly Bukhara
Diedc. 1297/98
Babadag, Golden Horde
Resting placeMausoleum of Sari Saltuk Baba, Babadag, Romania
44°53′37.3″N 28°43′07.0″E / 44.893694°N 28.718611°E / 44.893694; 28.718611
EraLate Middle Ages
Known forSufi mysticism
Religious life
ReligionIslam
Muslim leader
Period in office13th century
Influenced by

Sarı Saltık (alternatively spelled as Sarı Saltuk and also referred as Sarı Saltuk Baba or Dede, Ottoman Turkish: صارى صالتق, romanized: Ṣârı̊ Ṣâltı̊ḳ; Ṣârı̊ Ṣâltuḳ; sarı meaning 'the blonde', died 1297/98) was a 13th-century Alevi Turkish dervish, venerated as a saint by the Bektashi Sufi Muslims in the Balkans and parts of Middle East as well as the mainstream Sunni Muslim community.

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