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Religious minorities
  • Baha'is  Approximately 5 million practitioners this faith can be found throughout the world.
  • Bektashi  Members of this Shi'ite Sufi order played an important role in the Albanian national movement in the late 19th century.
  • Chaldeans  Members of the semi-autonomous Chaldean Church are found mostly in northern Iraq.
  • Fethullahci  Followers of Fethullah Gulen, a religious thinker who seeks to reconcile Islam and modernity.
  • Crimean Tatars  A Turkic-language-speaking people in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula who practice a liberal form of Islam.
  • Greek Catholics  Members of a religious community found primarily in Ukraine.
  • Yezidis  Adherents of a belief system draws from Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Gnostic, and Zoroastrian beliefs and traditions.
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