Aleviler

For other uses, see Alids and Alawi.
For the mainly Syrian Twelver Shia group, see Alawites. For the mainly Non-Muslim Kurdish religious groups, see Yazdânism.

Aleviler is an term used synonymously in Turkish language to characterize premodern Alid dynasties of northern Iran; the Ismaʿilis of the Pamir Mountains in Turkestan; and for followers for Alevism, a non-Ja'fari school sect of Twelver Shi'isms in Turkey.

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