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 of Pamir Mountains in Turkestan and the Non-Ja'fari Twelver-Shi'ites in Turkey.

Classification of Aleviler

 * Turkestan Alevis
 * 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, 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 or Nosairis, 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 or Ishik Alevism, also known as Alevism without Ali
 * Non-Islamic Kurdish Esoterism or Yârsânism, also known as Yarsanism or Kaka'is

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 * -  Shī'ah Imāmī Alevī Bektāshī Ṭarīqah



Bektashism

 * Brown, John (1927), The Darvishes of Oriental Spiritualism.
 * Küçük, Hülya (2002) The Roles of the Bektashis in Turkey's National Struggle. Leiden: Brill.
 * Mélikoff, Irène (1998). Hadji Bektach: Un mythe et ses avatars. Genèse et évolution du soufisme populaire en Turquie. Leiden: Islamic History and Civilization, Studies and Texts, volume 20, ISBN 90-04-10954-4.
 * Vorhoff, Karin. (1998), "Academic and Journalistic Publications on the Alevi and Bektashi of Turkey." In: Tord Olsson/Elizabeth Özdalga/Catharina Raudvere (eds.) Alevi Identity: Cultural, Religious and Social Perspectives, Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute, pp. 23–50.
 * Yaman, Ali & Aykan Erdemir (2006). Alevism-Bektashism: A Brief Introduction, London: England Alevi Cultural Centre & Cem Evi. ISBN 975-98065-3-3

Kızılbaşism

 * Halm, H. (1982). Die Islamische Gnosis: Die extreme Schia und die Alawiten. Zurich.
 * Kehl-Bodrogi, Krisztina (1992). Die Kizilbas/Aleviten. Untersuchungen uber eine esoterische Glaubensgemeinschaft in Anatolien. Die Welt des Islams, (New Series), Vol. 32, No. 1.
 * Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Krisztina, & Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Anke Otter-Beaujean, eds. (1997) Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East. Leiden: Brill, pp. 11–18.
 * Moosa, Matti (1988). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects, Syracuse University Press.

Ahl-e Haqq Tariqa and Kurdish Alevis

 * Elahi, Bahram (1987). The path of perfection, the spiritual teachings of Master Nur Ali Elahi. ISBN 0-7126-0200-3.
 * Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004) p. 82.
 * Edmonds, Cecil (1957). Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: politics, travel, and research in north-eastern Iraq, 1919–1925. Oxford University Press.
 * Kreyenbroek, P. G. (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.
 * White, Paul J. (2003), "The Debate on the Identity of "Alevi Kurds"." In: Paul J. White/Joost Jongerden (eds.) Turkey's Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview. Leiden: Brill, pp. 17–32.
 * White, Paul J. (2003), "The Debate on the Identity of "Alevi Kurds"." In: Paul J. White/Joost Jongerden (eds.) Turkey's Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview. Leiden: Brill, pp. 17–32.