The Bektashi Order or the Bektashi Tariqah (Albanian: Tarikati Bektashi; Turkish: Bektaşi Tarîkatı), is a dervish order (tariqat) named after the thirteenth century Alevi Wali (saint) Haji Bektash Veli from Khorasan, but founded by Balım Sultan.

The order is mainly found throughout Anatolia and the Balkans, and is particularly strong in Albania, Bulgaria, and among Ottoman era Greek Muslims from the regions of Epirus, Crete and Macedonia.

However, the Bektashi order does not seem to have attracted quite as many adherents from among Bosnian Muslims, who tended to favor more mainstream Sunni orders such as the Naqshbandiyya and Qadiriyya.

The order represents the official ideology of Bektashism (Turkish: Bektaşilik).In addition to the spiritual teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, the Bektashi order is later significantly influenced during its formative period by the Hurufis (in the early fifteenth century), the Qalandariyya stream of Sufism, and to varying degrees the Shia beliefs circulating in Anatolia during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.

The mystical practices and rituals of the Bektashi order are systematized and structured by Balım Sultan in the sixteenth century after which many of the order's distinct practices and beliefs take shape.

A large number of academics consider Bektashism to have fused a number of Shia and Sufi concepts, although the order contains rituals and doctrines that are distinct.

Throughout its history Bektashis have always had wide appeal and influence among both the Ottoman intellectual elite as well as the peasantry.