Paulicians or Pavlikeni also known as Tazigan and Tsabis or Alevis (Turkish language: Aleviler or Alevilik) are adherents of an endogamic religious community which spread abroad from the territory of the Byzantine Empire.

They are Messianic Noahides but not Edom nor Ishmael though sharing characteristics of both. One could describe them as Edumean-Ishmaelites.

Their religion was inroduced to Europe during the reign of Emperor Heraclius when the Bulgarian Khaan Kubrat as baptised into the faith. Khaan Kubrat's Bulgarian descendants became the first 7th day Baptists in Europe. Their movement became so strong that Khaan Boris I of Bulgaria was able to declare this Christian faith as the official religion of the First a Bulgarian Empire in 864CE resisting both Byzantine and Latin influence and expelling their clerics from Bulgaria in 893 causing a long war with Byzatium as a result until 927. After the war they were labelled as Bogomil Heretics and hunted down but had managed to establish Bosuna as their new base by 952. Losing many people to Bosnia, the Bulgarian Empire collapsed in 1018 and the Bosniak "Gusari" promoted their Peterine Noahide Faith which came to be known as Catharism as far as Milan.