List of Religious and Philosophical Ideologies Named After People

• Ahmadiyah - after Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
• Alevi - after Ali
• Althusserianism - after Louis Althusser
• Amish - after Jacob Amman
• Arianism - after Christian theologian Arius
• Aristotelianism - after Aristotle
• Arminianism - after Jacobus Arminius
• Augustinism - after Augustine of Hippo
• Averroism - after Averroes
• B?bism - after the B?b
• Badawiyyah - after Ahmad al-Badawi
• Bah?'? Faith - after Bah?'u'll?h
• Basilideans - after Basilides
• Bektashi - after Hajji Bektash Wali
• Benthamism - after Jeremy Bentham
• Buchmanism - after Frank N. D. Buchman
• Buddhism - after Buddha
• Calvinism - after John Calvin
• Cartesianism - after Descartes
• Christianity - after Jesus Christ
• Confucianism - after Confucius
• Darbyism - after John Nelson Darby
• Darqawa - after Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi
• Dominican - after Saint Dominic
• Epicureanism - after Epicurus
• Erastianism - after Thomas Erastus
• Febronianism - after Justinus Febronius
• Feeneyism - after Leonard Feeney
• Franciscan - after Francis of Assisi
• Georgism - after Henry George (though there's also a political philosophy called this)
• Halveti - after Pir Umar Halveti
• Hanafi - after Abu Hanifa an-Nu?man
• Hegelianism - after Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Hobbesianism - after Thomas Hobbes
• Hutterite - after Jakob Hutter
• Ismaili - after Ismail bin Jafar
• Jansenism - after Cornelius Jansen
• Jerrahi - after Pir Nureddin al-Jerrahi
• Kantianism - after Immanuel Kant
• Kubrawiya - after Najmeddin Kubra
• Laestadianism - after Lars Levi Laestadius
• Lutheranism and Neo-Lutheranism - after Church reformer Martin Luther
• Manicheism - after Mani (prophet)
• Martinism - after Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
• Mennonite - after Menno Simons
• Millerite - after William Miller (preacher)
• Mohism - after Mozi
• Montanism - after Montan
• Naqshbandi - after Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari
• Nestorianism - after Nestorius
• Nimatullahi - after Shah Nimatullah
• Pelagianism - after Pelagius
• Platonism and Neo-Platonism - after Plato
• Puseyism - after Edward Bouverie Pusey
• Pyrrhonism - after Pyrrho
• Qadiriyyah - after Abdul Qadir Jilani
• Randianism - after Ayn Rand
• Rastafarianism - after the Ras Tafari
• Ra?lism - after Ra?l
• Rifaiyyah - after Ahmed ar-Rifa'i
• Sabellianism - after Sabellius
• Safaviyeh - after Safi Al-Din
• Senussi - after Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi
• Shadhili - after Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili
• Socinianism - after Laelius Socinus
• Spinozism - after Baruch Spinoza
• Sri Aurobindo Ashram - after Sri Aurobindo
• Suhrawardiyya - after Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi
• Thomism - after Thomas Aquinas
• Tijaniyyah - after Sidi Ahmed al-Tidjani
• Wahhabism - after Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab
• Yazidism - may have been after Yazid I
• Wycliffite - after John Wyclif (may be misspelled)
• Zahediyeh - after Zahed Gilani
• Zoroastrianism - after Zoroaster
• Zwingliism - after Huldrych Zwingli

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