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Nosairians --- Alawis --- Alawites --- ʻAlawīyīn --- Alouite --- Ansarii --- Ansaris --- Nossarii --- Nusairis --- Nusayri-Alawis --- Nusayris --- Ethnology --- Shīʻah

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The Nusayri-'Alawi faith is an excellent example of a syncretistic esoteric religion with self-conscious elite who zealously guarded its sectarian literature. The faith fuses elements of cults and creeds of ancient pagan religions, Persian religion, Christianity, Gnosticism, Sunni and especially Shi'i Islam, in a syncretistic system that is clothed in heterodox Shi'i garb. This book presents a critical edition and study of Kitab al-Ma'arif (Book of Knowledge), authored by the early 11th century sage Abu Sa'id Maymun b. Qasim al-Tabarani. Al-Tabarani was an outstanding communal leader and theologian in the formative period of the Nusayri religion, and became a prominent figure in the golden chain of Nusayri tradition. This seminal work is a compendium of Nusayri theology and liturgy, forming part of al-Tabarani's larger project to systematize the beliefs and practices of the developing religion and to consolidate its self-definition through a corpus of religious paideia. As such, this work, together with al-Tabarani's other writings, played a crucial role in transforming the meaning and practice of Islam by shaping the new religion's identity as the true Shi'a, reminiscent of antinomian Pauline Christianity and its definition of verus Israel.

Islamic theology --- Islamitische theologie --- Kaalam --- Kalâm --- Theologie [Islamitische ] --- Theologie [Mohammedaanse ] --- Theology [Islamic ] --- Theology [Muslim ] --- Théologie islamique --- Théologie musulmane --- Nosairians --- Doctrines --- Academic collection --- Alawis --- Alawites --- ʻAlawīyīn --- Alouite --- Ansarii --- Ansaris --- Nossarii --- Nusairis --- Nusayri-Alawis --- Nusayris --- Ethnology --- Shīʻah --- Arabic poetry --- History and criticism --- Early works to 1800 --- Shi'ah --- Nosairians - Doctrines - Early works to 1800

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Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. Originating in the South-Yemeni region of Hadramawt, the Alawi tariqa mainly spread along the coast of the Indian Ocean. The Alawis are here portrayed as one of many cultural mediators in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious Indian Ocean world in the era of European colonialism.

Sufism --- Sufis --- Ulama --- Nosairians --- Islamic sects --- Soufisme --- Soufis --- Ulémas --- Nuṣayrīs --- Sectes islamiques --- History --- Biography --- Histoire --- Biographies --- Islam --- Muslim sects --- Sects, Islamic --- Sects, Muslim --- Sects --- Islamic heresies --- Alawis --- Alawites --- ʻAlawīyīn --- Alouite --- Ansarii --- Ansaris --- Nossarii --- Nusairis --- Nusayri-Alawis --- Nusayris --- Ethnology --- Shīʻah --- Ulema --- Muslim scholars --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- History. --- Functionaries

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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.

Nosairians --- Minorities --- History --- Religion --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions --- Syria --- Ethnic relations --- Religious life and customs --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Alawis --- Alawites --- ʻAlawīyīn --- Alouite --- Ansarii --- Ansaris --- Nossarii --- Nusairis --- Nusayri-Alawis --- Nusayris --- Ethnology --- Shīʻah --- Sirii︠a︡ --- Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) --- Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) --- سوريا --- Sūriyā --- Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah --- Syrian Arab Republic --- République arabe syrienne --- Sowria --- Syrie --- R.A.S. --- RAS --- Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah --- Fédération des États de Syrie --- Syrische Arabische Republik --- SAR --- Suryah --- Arabska Republika Syryjska --- Syrien --- Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya --- Repubblica Araba Siriana --- جمهورية العربية السورية --- Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah --- Сірыя --- Siryi︠a︡ --- Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка --- Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Сирийската арабска република --- Siriĭskata arabska republika --- Συρία --- Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας --- Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias --- 시리아 --- Siria --- סוריה --- רפובליקה הערבית הסורית --- Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit --- シリア --- Shiria --- Сирия --- Сирийская Арабская Республика --- Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Сирія --- Syrii︠a︡ --- Сирійська Арабська республіка --- Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika --- 敘利亞 --- Xuliya --- United Arab Republic --- Ethnic relations. --- Religious life and customs. --- History. --- Religion. --- Ethnic identity. --- Social conditions. --- Nosairians - Syria - History --- Nosairians - Syria - Religion --- Nosairians - Syria - Ethnic identity --- Nosairians - Syria - Social conditions --- Minorities - Syria - Case studies --- Syria - Ethnic relations --- Syria - Religious life and customs