Minorities within Islam

Family: Peoples, minorities and protected groups · 7 entries

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Concept

• The Nizari da'wa's graded recruitment

  The arsenal the Nizari da'wa gave its da'is to win recruits: tafris — 'reading' the soul's depths and the will's pliability; ta'nis — kindling trust and feeding each bent; tashkik — the boldest step, unsettling the recruit's creed; ta'liq — leaving him suspended and yearning for the doctrine; tadlis — deceit and false claims to whet him; ta'sis — fixing the taught 'facts' until they settle in his mind; khal' — casting off the Sunni rites for good by illicit ta'wil.

Group

• Alevism

  Alevism is an Anatolian religious-cultural current centred on devotion to Ali and the ahl al-bayt; scholars distinguish its modern formation as a category from its roots in the ghulat and Nusayri currents treated by the classical heresiographies.

• Ibadiyya

  The Ibadiyya — followers of Abdallah ibn Ibad, the one Khariji branch to survive, in North Africa, Oman, Hadramawt and Zanzibar, with a kalam touched by the Mu'tazila and a fiqh of its own.

• The Ismaili Da'wa

  The Fihrist's Ismaili chapter — the da'is Nasafi, Abu Hatim al-Razi, Banu Hammad of Mosul, Ibn Nafis.

• The Ja'fari school

  The Ja'fari school is the Twelver school of fiqh traced to Ja'far al-Sadiq; the heresiographies treat it within the Imamiyya and academic study presents it as Twelver jurisprudence.

• Kaysaniyya

  Draft card for the Kaysaniyya, the early Shi'i sect that held to the imamate of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah after al-Husayn; treated in the cited heresiography, the page not yet checked.

• Zaydiyya

  The Zaydiyya — imamate in any qualified Fatimid; most muhaddithun leaned to it, says the Fihrist

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