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The purpose of this study is to explore whether the dimensions of spiritual leadership are present Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli’s works. Spiritual leadership has been the subject of a number of studies in the literature, generally in terms of its effects on organizational outputs and in Islamic terms. Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli, on the other hand, has been studied within the context of anecdotes, root values, and values education in general. Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli’s works has been studied within the context of spiritual leadership in this study. The present study is considered significant as it addresses the subject both spiritual leadership and religiously. With this aspect, the study is expected to affect the direction of future studies. Among the most important limitations of the study are that it only focuses on Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli and that it examines only two works of Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli. The works of Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli examined in this study are Velâyet-nâme and Mâkâlat-ı Gaybiyyeve and Kelimât-ı Ayniyye. The presence of the dimensions of spiritual leadership in the works of Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli was investigated by document analysis method, and descriptive analysis was made. The dimensions of spiritual leadership are vision, hope/effort (belief), meaning (call), altruism, belonging (membership), spiritual life, and life satisfaction. The values intended to be expressed regarding the dimensions of spiritual leadership in the works of Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli are, in essence, spiritual values like interiority, morality, believing that one comes from and goes to Allah, living like a dervish (holy person), breaking one’s connection with the worldly (nafs), being alone with Allah, leaving one’s essence to reach Allah’s essence, and evanishing into Allah’s divine light. The study found that six of the seven dimensions of spiritual leadership are present in the works. The only spiritual leadership dimension not included in the findings of Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli’s two works is altruism.

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