Thus, instead of the master-subject relationship between God and Man, Bektashi anecdotes wish to introduce a relationship between two friendly beings who converse comfortably and who tolerate each other. In the Bektashi anecdotes, the roots of the jokes framed within daily incidents extend to a distant past and these metaphysical ideas. The genial personality of the Bektashi of our recent times can, in a sense, be considered to descend from the lineage of eloquent men such as Celaleddin of Konya ...