For the Near Eastern landscape, you might also be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans https://en.w

For the Near Eastern landscape, you might also be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alawites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alawites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism I first found out about the Karaites when I asked a theologian why there was no Jewish equivalent to the Protestant notion of "sola scriptura". It turns out that there is. :-) There are also some parts of Eastern Christianity that aren't very familiar to many westerners, like Syriac Christians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy