The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs [electronic resource] : an introduction to the religion, history, and identity of the leading minority in Syria / by Yaron Friedman.

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ISBN:

9789047441274

Title:

The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs [electronic resource] : an introduction to the religion, history, and identity of the leading minority in Syria / by Yaron Friedman.

Author:

Friedman, Yaron.

Personal Author:

Friedman, Yaron.

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 325 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization, v. 77

Contents:

Preface; Abbreviations; Note on Citation, Dates and Transliteration; Introduction; I. History of the Nus?ayris; II. The Nus?ayri Religion; III. Identity between Sunna and Shi'a; Conclusion; Appendices; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Subject Term:

Nosairians -- Syria -- History.

Nosairians -- Syria -- Religion.

Nosairians -- Syria -- Ethnic identity.

Nosairians -- Syria -- Social conditions.

Minorities -- Syria -- Case studies.

Geographic Term:

Syria -- Ethnic relations.

Syria -- Religious life and customs.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2010

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Summary

Friedman offers new and updated research on the Nusayrī-'Alawī sect, today a leading group in Syria, covering a variety of aspects and focusing on the Middle Ages. A century after Dussaud's Histoire et religion des Nosairîs (1900), he reviews the history and religion of the sect in the light of old documents used by orientalists in the nineteenth century, documents that became available in the twentieth century, and later sources of the Nuṣayrī-'Alawī sect published most recently in Lebanon. Also studied in depth for the first time is the question of the identity of the sect through the 'Alawī-Sunnī-Shī'ī triangle.