Aleviler

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 ' 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
• Non-Islamic Yazdânī Faith
• *Anthropopathic Ali-Illahism
• *Anti-Islamic Chinarism or Ishik Alevism, also known as Alevism without Ali
• * Non-Islamic Kurdish Esoterism or Yârsânism', also known as Ahl-E Haqq or Kaka'is

Alavids

• Bektashism

• Brown, John, The Darvishes of Oriental Spiritualism.
• Küçük, Hülya The Roles of the Bektashis in Turkey’s National Struggle. Leiden: Brill.
• Mélikoff, Irène. 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,.
• Vorhoff, Karin., “Academic and Journalistic Publications on the Alevi and Bektashi of Turkey.” In: Tord Olsson/Elizabeth Özdalga/Catharina Raudvere Alevi Identity: Cultural, Religious and Social Perspectives, Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute, pp. 23–50.
• Yaman, Ali & Aykan Erdemir. Alevism-Bektashism: A Brief Introduction, London: England Alevi Cultural Centre & Cem Evi.

  Kızılbaşism

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

  Ahl-e Haqq Tariqa and Kurdish Alevis

• Elahi, Bahram. The path of perfection, the spiritual teachings of Master Nur Ali Elahi..
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa p. 82.
• Edmonds, Cecil. Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: politics, travel, and research in north-eastern Iraq, 1919–1925. Oxford University Press.
• Kreyenbroek, P. G.. Review of The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish Community, by M. Reza Hamzeh'ee, 1990,. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.55, No.3, pp. 565–566.
• White, Paul J., “The Debate on the Identity of "Alevi Kurds".” In: Paul J. White/Joost Jongerden Turkey’s Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview. Leiden: Brill, pp. 17–32.