The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs : an introduction to the religion, history, and identity of the leading minority in Syria /
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 lig...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
Series:
Islamic History and Civilization
77.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004223059.
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Call Number: DS94.8.N67 F75 2010
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047441274 |
| ISSN: | 0929-2403 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |