Aleviler

Aleviler is an idiom, being used synonymously in Turkish language with Shi'ites, to characterize the Zaydids of Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan; the Bātinī-Ismāʿīlīs^[1] of Pamir Mountains in Turkestan and the Non-Ja'fari Twelver-Shi'ites in Turkey.

Classification of Aleviler

Turkestan Alevis^[1]
- Zaid'īyyah Alavids of the Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan, emerged under the influence of the Hasan ibn Zayd and the efforts of Hasan ibn Ali al-Utrush
- Bātinī-Ismāʿīl'īyyah Alevis of the Pamir Mountains,^[1] emerged under the influence of the Ismailyya Da'i Nasir Khusraw al-Qubadiani of the Fatimid caliph Abū Tamīm Ma'add al-Mustanṣir bi-llāh
Bābā'ī-Bātin'īyyah (Mostly Turkish and some Kurdish) Alevis
- Sāfav'īyyah-Kızılbaşism/Qizilbash Tariqa, a religious ghulāt-Alevi community in Turkey, emerged under the influence of Kaysanites Shia, Khurramiyyah Tariqa, and Shah Ismail of the Safavid dynasty in Iran
- Ḥurūfī'īyyah-Bektashism/Bektashiyyah Tariqa, a religious Alevi-Bātinī community in Turkey, Balkans and Albania, emerged under the influence of Ismailiyyah Shia, Shamanism and Tengrism
Arab Alawis^[2] or Nosairis,^[3]^[4] a branch of ghulāt bātin'īyyah-Twelvers, now present in Syria, Southern Turkey and Northern Lebanon, founded by Ibn Nusayr and Al-Khaṣībī
Anthropotheist Ali-Illahism
Anti-Islamic Chinarism^[5] or Ishik Alevism, also known as Alevism without Ali^[6]
Non-Islamic Kurdish Esoterism^[7] or Yârsânism,^[8] also known as Yarsanism or Kaka'is^[9]

The historical emergence of the Shīʿa Imāmī Alevi Ṭarīqah and other related non-Muslim sects

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Balcıoğlu, Tahir Harimî, Türk Tarihinde Mezhep Cereyanları – The course of madh'hab events in Turkish history (Preface and notes by Hilmi Ziya Ülken), Ahmet Sait Press, 271 pages, Kanaat Publications, Istanbul, 1940. (in Turkish)
^ Cagaptay, Soner (17 April 2012). "Are Syrian Alawites and Turkish Alevis the same?". CNN. Archived from the original on 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
^ Some sources (Martin van Bruinessen and Jamal Shah) call Alevi "a blanket term for a large number of different heterodox communities", and includes Arabic speaking Alawites in southern Turkey, and Azerbaijani speaking Turkish in the eastern province of Kars "whose Alevism differs little from the 'orthodox' Twelver Shi`ism of modern Iran".
^ van Bruinessen, Martin (c. 1995). "Kurds, Turks, and the Alevi Revival in Turkey". islam.uga.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-05-12. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
^ Erdoğan Çınar (2004). "Aleviliğin Gizli Tarihi – (The Secret history of Alevism)". Chivi Yazıları.
^ Bulut, Faik, (2011), "Ali'siz Alevîlik" – Alevism without Ali, Berfin Yayıncılık.
^ Hamzeh'ee, M. Reza Fariborz (1995). Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi; et al. (eds.). Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East. Leiden: Brill. pp. 101–117. ISBN 90-04-10861-0.
^ P. G. Kreyenbroek (1992). Review of The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish Community, by M. Reza Hamzeh'ee, 1990, ISBN 3-922968-83-X. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.55, No.3, pp.565–566.
^ Elahi, Bahram (1987). The path of perfection, the spiritual teachings of Master Nur Ali Elahi. ISBN 0-7126-0200-3.

[Balcıoğlu-1] Balcıoğlu, Tahir Harimî, Türk Tarihinde Mezhep Cereyanları – The course of madh'hab events in Turkish history (Preface and notes by Hilmi Ziya Ülken), Ahmet Sait Press, 271 pages, Kanaat Publications, Istanbul, 1940. (in Turkish)

[Cagaptay-2012-2] Cagaptay, Soner (17 April 2012). "Are Syrian Alawites and Turkish Alevis the same?". CNN. Archived from the original on 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2017-07-28.

[3] Some sources (Martin van Bruinessen and Jamal Shah) call Alevi "a blanket term for a large number of different heterodox communities", and includes Arabic speaking Alawites in southern Turkey, and Azerbaijani speaking Turkish in the eastern province of Kars "whose Alevism differs little from the 'orthodox' Twelver Shi`ism of modern Iran".

[Bruinessen-4] van Bruinessen, Martin (c. 1995). "Kurds, Turks, and the Alevi Revival in Turkey". islam.uga.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-05-12. Retrieved 2017-07-31.

[5] Erdoğan Çınar (2004). "Aleviliğin Gizli Tarihi – (The Secret history of Alevism)". Chivi Yazıları.

[6] Bulut, Faik, (2011), "Ali'siz Alevîlik" – Alevism without Ali, Berfin Yayıncılık.

[7] Hamzeh'ee, M. Reza Fariborz (1995). Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi; et al. (eds.). Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East. Leiden: Brill. pp. 101–117. ISBN 90-04-10861-0.

[8] P. G. Kreyenbroek (1992). Review of The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish Community, by M. Reza Hamzeh'ee, 1990, ISBN 3-922968-83-X. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.55, No.3, pp.565–566.

[9] Elahi, Bahram (1987). The path of perfection, the spiritual teachings of Master Nur Ali Elahi. ISBN 0-7126-0200-3.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]