Ibrahimiyya emerged in
Talafar, which became its stronghold. Its adherents were all
Iraqi Turkmen. It emerged right after the first time the
Safavids conquered Iraq. Ibrahimiyya originated from the heterodox
Qizilbash beliefs, and had similarities with the
Safavi order,
Bektashism,
Alevism,
Alawites, and
Yarsanism. Ibrahimiyya was considered a Ghulat sect. Ibrahimiyya venerated
Moses and
Reuben as men most trusted by
Ali, and believed that Moses and Reuben were killed by
Zoroastrians at the time of the
Muslim conquest of Persia. Ibrahimiyya believed in the
Haqq–Muhammad–Ali trinity. The holy book of Ibrahimiyya was the
Buyruk, although different from the Buyruk of
Shabakism. They were written in the same language, although the Ibrahimiyya version of the Buyruk contained content that was not present in the Shabak version of the Buyruk, including a brief biography of Sheikh Safiaddin and some hymns composed by Shah Ismail and other Qizilbash poets. In some parts, the Ibrahimiyya version was more detailed than the Shabak version. The Ibrahimiyya were a faction of the heterodox Iraqi Turkmen Shias, who were isolated from the orthodox Iraqi Turkmen Shias. They were generally very secretive about their religion. In the 1920s, Twelver Shia missionaries from Southern Iraq began to
proselytise the heterodox Twelver Shias across the country, and the Ibrahimiyya gradually converted to orthodox Shia Islam. == References ==