The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs

The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs PDF Author: Yaron Friedman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004178929
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Book Description
Friedman offers new and updated research on the Nusayr - Alaw 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 Nosair s" (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 Nu ayr - Alaw 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 Alaw -Sunn -Sh triangle.