(January 31, 2011 at 4:59 am)Rayaan Wrote:(January 30, 2011 at 5:13 am)muhtesem insan Wrote: There's a sect -spesific to Turkey- called Alevism. (not to be confused with Alawi's of Syria) Alevi's differ from other sect dramatically. It's a mixture of shi'a sufism and turkic paganazim -göktanrı(Skygod) religion-, some even says it's a different religion than a sect of islam. I believe it's turkicized version of Islam.
Technically, I don't consider it as a sect in Islam because anything which excludes one of the five pillars of Islam cannot be Islam.
I see your point, Rayaan, but orthodoxy is defined by the winners. Xtians used to run around slaughtering each other over such doctrinal points too and would again if they thought they could get away with it.
