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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Yaron.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; v. 77.

Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; v. 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nosairians--Syria--History.

Nosairians.

Nosairians--Syria--Religion.

Nosairians--Syria--Ethnic identity.

Nosairians--Syria--Social conditions.

Minorities--Syria--Case studies.

Minorities.

Syria--Ethnic relations.

Syria.

Syria--Religious life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Y. Friedman

Introduction / Y. Friedman

I. History Of The Nuṣayrīs / Y. Friedman

II. The Nuṣayrī Religion / Y. Friedman

III. Identity between Sunna and Shī’a / Y. Friedman

Conclusion / Y. Friedman

Appendix 1. Primary Nuṣayrī Sources / Y. Friedman

Appendix 2. Titles And Contents Of Unavailable Sources / Y. Friedman

Appendix 3. Ciphers In The Writings of al-Ṭabarānī / Y. Friedman

Appendix 4. The Table of Ranks Based on Abdallāh ibn Mu’āwiya’s Kitāb al-marātib wa-’l-daraj / Y. Friedman

Appendix 5. List of the Imāms And Their bābs / Y. Friedman

Appendix 6. Dīwān al-Khasị̄bī—Information And Summary / Y. Friedman

Appendix 7. A Summary of the Kitāb al-majmū’: A Dustūr (Book for Initiates) from the Nineteenth Century / Y. Friedman

Appendix 8. The Fatwā of Ibn Taymiyya Against The Nuṣayrīs / Y. Friedman

Select Bibliography / Y. Friedman

Index / Y. Friedman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-95083-5

9786612950834

90-474-4127-3

OCLC:

813296967

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004178922.i-328 DOI