| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; v. 77 |
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Islamic history and civilization ; v. 77.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- [Part] I. History of the Nuṣayrīs ; Ibn Nuṣayr : "The gate of God" -- Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥamdān al-Khaṣībī : the founder of the sect -- Crystallization and the editing of books -- Maymūn al-Ṭabarānī and the book of the holidays -- Rival sects : Isḥāqīs and Druzes -- The Banū Shuʻba of Ḥarrān -- The end of the golden age -- Shaykh al-Nashshābī's travels -- Al-Makzūn al-Sinjārī and the Nuṣayrī awakening -- Oppression under the Mamlūks -- Nuṣayrī medieval history : a chronological table -- [Part] II. The Nuṣayrī religion ; Western research on the Nuṣayrī religion -- The nature of the divinity -- The Nuṣayrī cosmos -- Transmigration and prohibited foods -- Cyclic history -- The gnostic mystical elevation : maʻrifa and sirāt -- Demonology and the personification of Iblīs -- The "Prince of the bees" : ʻAlī and his army of martyrs -- Allegorical interpretation of the sharīʻa -- The Nuṣayrī holidays and the creation of a new calendar -- [Part] III. Identity between Sunna and Shīʻa ; Two Shīʻī attitudes -- The Sunnī 'takfīr' against the Nuṣayrīs -- The Nuṣayrī identity through the "Dīwān" of al-Khaṣībī -- Initiation -- The Nuṣayrī brotherhood -- Conclusion ; The question of external influences -- Identity |
| Summary |
Friedman offers new and updated research on the Nuṣayrī-ʼAlawī 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-ʼAlawī 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 ʼAlawī-Sunnī-Shī'ī triangle |
| Bibliography |
Includes list of abbreviations, a note on citations, dates and transliteration, bibliographical references (pages 311-315), appendices, and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Nosairians -- Syria -- History
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Nosairians -- Syria -- Religion
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Nosairians -- Syria -- Ethnic identity
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Nosairians -- Syria -- Social conditions
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Minorities -- Syria -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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Ethnic relations
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Minorities
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Nosairians
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Nusairier
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Minderheit
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Syria -- Ethnic relations
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Syria -- Religious life and customs
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Syria
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Syrien
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009035966 |
| ISBN |
9789047441274 |
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9047441273 |
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1282950835 |
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9781282950832 |
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9786612950834 |
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6612950838 |
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