Thesis Type: Doctorate
Institution Of The Thesis: Ankara University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, FELSEFE VE DİN BİLİMLERİ ANABİLİM DALI, Turkey
Approval Date: 2006
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: ALİ ALBAYRAK
Supervisor: NİYAZİ AKYÜZ
Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
Abstract:This study instructs us about the caferies that is a religious group. The cafericult accepts the belief to imams one of the fundamantel of religion. They accept thesight of Imam Cafer es- Sadık on religion,? To them, Cafer es-Sadık is the greatestof the Imams and he is the founder of ? So they use the name ?Caferiyye? whilethey talk about themselves to be one cult.The Caferies can be seen in our territory too but great majority of Caferieslive in Iran, Azerbaycan, and Apghanıstan? The turkısh Caferies that arederivational of Azeri have generally passed away from Kars and Igdır to othertowns.There hasnt been any study yet about the total population of turkısh Caferiesthat live in big towns like Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir.Because of that vey diffrentdiggets are told about the Caferi population. Some of the internet sites that belong toCaferies referances 3 million people , on the other way some investigationsreferances 1-1,5 million people.There are almost 4,500 Caferi at the investigationarea of this study.The study that is about the solemn and social life of Caferies consists ofadmission and three parts.In admission part it is told about the topic of investigation,the purpose and significance of invetigation, the counts and hypothesis ofinvestigation,the kapsam and sınırlılık of invetigation,and method of investigation.Infirst part the information are given about group, social group, the varies and featuresof social and solemn groups, cult and Caferi cult, the fundamental of religion inCaferies and the life of worship in Caferies. In second part ?In thırd part theconsequence of investigation is told.