73 Divisions in Islam and One True Jama'at

73 Divisions in Islam and One True Jama'at — Page 41

41 App endix I I: Sects in Islam A number of lists are seen in the literature [60 - 62] giving the names of the sects. Two I used to produce the following list are those of Islamic encyclopedia published by Munshi Mehboob ‘Alim [60] and that of abu - Mansur al - Baghdadi [61]. Abu - Mansur al - Baghdadi’s list was produced around 10th century AD and he has included an number of political movement as separate sects. Such movements differed from each other on the question of leadership and had no theological differences and thus I believe that can not be cons idered as independent sect, so in my list I have not included such political movements as independent sects. On the other hand Munshi Mehboob ‘Alim has included in his list, sects which rejects some of the fundamental beliefs of Islam while abu - Mansur al - B aghdadi does not consider them to be a part of Islam. For example Ghullat and all its subsects believe in the divinity of Ali, Zanadiqiyahs and some other sects do not believe in the Day of Judgement etc. While preparing the following list I agree with Bag hdadi and do not include such sects. Finally, Munshi Mehboob ‘Alim has listed two sects ‘Aliviyah and Ajariyah distinguishing between them on the basis that one believes in the prophethood of Ali while the other one believes that Ali was a partner in proph ethood. I consider these two to be one sect. Other than the above mentioned differences the two lists I used are identical except the fact that Munshi Mehboob ‘Alim divides the whole Ummah into six major branches i. e.