Ibrahimiyya (Arabic: الإبراهيمية;Turkish: İbrahimiyye) was aGhulat sect ofShia Islam in Iraq. Ibrahimiyya was made up ofIraqi Turkmen aroundTalafar. It emerged when theSafavids first captured Iraq, and it dissolved in the 1920s after its adherents gradually converted to mainstreamTwelver Shia Islam.
Ibrahimiyya emerged inTalafar, which became its stronghold. Its adherents were allIraqi Turkmen. It emerged right after the first time theSafavids conquered Iraq. Ibrahimiyya originated from the heterodoxQizilbash beliefs, and had similarities with theSafavi order,Bektashism,Alevism,Alawites, andYarsanism. Ibrahimiyya was considered a Ghulat sect. Ibrahimiyya veneratedMoses andReuben as men most trusted byAli, and believed that Moses and Reuben were killed byZoroastrians at the time of theMuslim conquest of Persia. Ibrahimiyya believed in theHaqq–Muhammad–Ali trinity.[1][2][3] The holy book of Ibrahimiyya was theBuyruk, although different from the Buyruk ofShabakism. 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.[4] 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 toproselytise the heterodox Twelver Shias across the country, and the Ibrahimiyya gradually converted to orthodox Shia Islam.[5]