Ahmet Kayhan Dede
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Ahmet Kayhan Dede was born in the Mako-Aktarlar village of Malatya province, Turkey in 1891 and died on August 3, 1998. Apprentices of Islamic Mysticism consider him a Sufi Master. "Dede" actually means "grandpa" and is appended to the name as an expression of loving respect as is custom towards elder relatives.
He lost his father when he was only 1 year old. Then his mother remarried, but died when he was seven. He stayed with an aunt for a while. When he was 5 years old he met his Master Ahmet efendi.
Ahmet Kayhan settled in Ankara in the 1930s and married Hajar (March 25, 1937), who remained his wife until his death. Keko passed away on May 7, 1944. He was a very great master, routinely visited by hundreds of people, and when he died the task of enlightening the people fell to Musa Kiazim, who had been Keko's fellow-disciple during and after the First World War. With the death of Kiazim Effendi in 1966, Grandpa Kayhan "donned the Mantle."
Master Kayhan's chain of transmission is traced through the Prophet Muhammad, his close associate and first Abu Bakr, Abdul Qadir Jelani, Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari, Ahmad Sirhindi, Abdullah Dehlewi, Hadhrat Mawlânâ Khâlid-i Baghdâdî, Sheikh Samini, Osman Badruddin, and Ahmet Kayhan Dede.
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- The Flawless Human Being English biography written by Henry Bayman
