A study of the Sheikhieh of Azerbaijan and its differences with the Sheikhieh of Kerman

“Sheikhieh” is the name of a group that in the last two hundred years, by expressing some special opinions and views, by Sheikh Ahmad Ehsaei, marked a new chapter of theology and wisdom and beliefs in the Shiite school. After him, his successor, Seyyed Kazem Rashti, continued the path and method of the sheikh, and after Seyyed, a number of his students and the sheikh claimed to be the successor of Seyyed Kazem Rashti. After Seyyed Kazem Rashti, the dispute over his succession between the elders of the Sheikhs of Azerbaijan and the Sheikhs of Kerman was the beginning of division and separation between the two branches. , Physical resurrection (in the form of the world of Horqlia), the reasons for reciting the four Imams (as) and … by the Sheikh of Kerman, were among the internal differences that arose among the Sheikhs and finally the students of the school of Sheikhs to groups: the family of Mohammad Karim Khan Kermani ( Karim Khaniyeh) in Kerman and the family of the Trust of Islam and the Hujjat al-Islam and the Truths branched out in Azerbaijan. Therefore, the most important branches of Sheikhiya can be summarized in two branches of Kerman and Azerbaijan. Although these two groups of followers of the views of Sheikh and Sayyid have commonalities in many cases, but they also have important differences, the most important of which are the issue of the fourth pillar and the principles of religion, as well as referring to the authorities of imitation. In fact, the Sheikhs of Azerbaijan are much closer to the Imami Shiites due to the adoption of their principled positions and do not accept some inventions and innovations of the Kerman branch.