Aleviler

For other uses, see Alevis and Alids.

For other uses, see Alawi (disambiguation).

For the mainly Syrian-Shi'ite religious group, see Alawis. For the mainly Non-Muslim Kurdish religious groups, see Yazdânism.

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

Aleviler amongst Shia Islam