Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat SectsLittle is known in the West about the division of the Islamic world into Shiites and Sunnites and even less about the stratification of these two groups, with most of the attention going to the Sunnites. Moosa's comprehensive study of the origins and cultural aspects of the different extremist, or Ghulat, Shiite sects in the Middle East is a ground-breaking work. These sects whose 'extremism' is essentially religious are generally a peaceful people and, except for the Nusayris of Syria, are not political activists. |
Contents
The Shabak | 1 |
24 | 7 |
The Bektashis | 10 |
The Safawis and Kizilbash | 21 |
The Bektashis the Kizilbash and the Shabak | 36 |
The Ghulats Trinity | 50 |
The Miraculous Attributes of Ali | 66 |
The Family of the Prophet | 77 |
The Role of Ali | 245 |
Ancient Period | 255 |
Middle Period | 267 |
Under the French Mandate | 280 |
Rise to Political Power | 292 |
28 | 298 |
Ali Muhammad and Salman | 342 |
32 | 362 |
Religious Hierarchy | 88 |
The Twelve Imams | 92 |
The Abdal | 110 |
Rituals and Ceremonies | 120 |
Social Customs | 144 |
Religious Books | 152 |
The Bajwan and Ibrahimiyya | 163 |
The SarliyyaKakaiyya | 168 |
Origin and Identity | 185 |
Cosmology and Cosmogony | 194 |
Founder of the AhliHaqq | 214 |
The Cult of Dawud | 224 |
The Jam | 231 |
33 | 370 |
34 | 382 |
35 | 392 |
The Nusayri Mass | 398 |
36 | 409 |
37 | 416 |
38 | 426 |
Armenian Elements in the Beliefs of the Kizilbash Kurds | 432 |
Notes | 449 |
468 | |
565 | |
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Common terms and phrases
Abd Allah abdal According Adam Ahl al-Bayt Ahl-i Haqq Ahmad al-Adani al-Alawiyyun Al-Azzawi Al-Ghulami al-Hasan al-Husayn al-Karmali al-Khasibi al-Nusayriyya al-Sarraf al-Shabak al-Shaibi Al-Tabarani Alawis Ali's angels Arab Armenian Asian Mystery Baath Party Baba Beirut Bektashi Order Bektashis believe Benyamin Bibliothèque Nationale Buyruk Cairo Caliph called ceremony Christian considered Dawud Deity dervishes divine extremist Shiite faith Fatima Ghulat Haji Bektash haqiqat Ibid Ibn Arabi Ibn Nusayr Ibrahim Ilahis incarnation Iran Iraq Islam Ivanow Jafar al-Sadiq Jesus Junayd Kakaiyya Khan Kitab al-Bakura Kizilbash Kurds leader light Lyde Mahdi manifested Matbaat Minorsky Muhammad Ibn Muslim Nusayris Ottoman Paulicians Persian prayer Prophet Muhammad Quran religion religious Safawi Safi al-Din Salman al-Farisi Saranjam Sarliyya says Sayyid Secte des Ahlé-Haqq Shabak Shah Ismail Shah Kushin Shaykh Safi al-Din Shiism spiritual Sufi Sultan Sahak Sunnite Syria Tadhkira Talib Tarikh tradition Truth Truth-Worshippers Turkey Turkish Turkoman Turks twelve Imams village writer