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Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2014 1:15 pm**

A review of an account of some millenia-old religious groups of small numbers in the middle east, sc.
Samaritans
Yazidis
Druze
Mandaeans
Zoroastrians
Copts (they're still numerous, though)
Kalasha

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousben ... perishing/

Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:49 am**

Alawites
Alevism
Assyrians
Chaldeans
Nestorianism
Azraqites Kharijites
Bábism
Bahá'í
Bahoutzim Jews of Algeria
Bektashism Turkey
Barghawata Morocco
Shafi'i Sunni Islam
Zoroastrianism, Parsi, Mazdeans
Hanbali school (Sunni)
Hanafi school (Sunni)
Maliki school (Sunni)
Shafi'i school (Sunni)
Ibadi
Ismailism
Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
Kharijites
Maronites
Mazdakism
156,000 Armenians in Lebanon
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Mozabites of Algeria (Ibadi)
Zaidiyyah

Posted: **Wed Feb 04, 2015 12:30 pm**

I have some quibbles about specific points but Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms is an excellent book, well worth reading.

Andrew Criddle

Posted: **Mon Mar 16, 2015 2:13 pm**

Huon wrote:Alawites
Alevism
Assyrians
Chaldeans
Nestorianism
Azraqites Kharijites
Bábism
Bahá'í
Bahoutzim Jews of Algeria
Bektashism Turkey
Barghawata Morocco
Shafi'i Sunni Islam
Zoroastrianism, Parsi, Mazdeans
Hanbali school (Sunni)
Hanafi school (Sunni)
Maliki school (Sunni)
Shafi'i school (Sunni)
Ibadi
Ismailism
Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
Kharijites
Maronites
Mazdakism
156,000 Armenians in Lebanon
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Mozabites of Algeria (Ibadi)
Zaidiyyah

Beyond the Sunni, is it only the Zoroastrianism that are still in operation, does anybody know. Great list, by the way...

Posted: **Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:45 pm**

Arianism
Isiacism/Serapianism
Montanism
Mythracism

Posted: **Fri Nov 06, 2015 1:23 pm**

KizzieDoes wrote:
Huon wrote:Alawites
Alevism
Assyrians
Chaldeans
Nestorianism
Azraqites Kharijites
Bábism
Bahá'í
Bahoutzim Jews of Algeria
Bektashism Turkey
Barghawata Morocco
Shafi'i Sunni Islam
Zoroastrianism, Parsi, Mazdeans
Hanbali school (Sunni)
Hanafi school (Sunni)
Maliki school (Sunni)
Shafi'i school (Sunni)
Ibadi
Ismailism
Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
Kharijites
Maronites
Mazdakism
156,000 Armenians in Lebanon
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Mozabites of Algeria (Ibadi)
Zaidiyyah
Beyond the Sunni, is it only the Zoroastrianism that are still in operation, does anybody know. Great list, by the way...

The Baha'i Faith is still functioning, though severely oppressed in many Islamic countries. The World Center of the Baha'i Faith is in Haifa, Israel.

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