List of Religious and Philosophical Ideologies Named After People

Posted in Religion

  • 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