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Nosairians --- Nusayris --- Nuṣayrīs

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"The 'Alawis, or Alawites, are a prominent religious minority in northern Syria, Lebanon, and southern Turkey, best known today for enjoying disproportionate political power in war-torn Syria. In this book, Stefan Winter offers a complete history of the community, from the birth of the 'Alawi (Nusayri) sect in the tenth century to just after World War I, the establishment of the French mandate over Syria, and the early years of the Turkish republic. Winter draws on a wealth of Ottoman archival records and other sources to show that the 'Alawis were not historically persecuted as is often claimed, but rather were a fundamental part of Syrian and Turkish provincial society. Winter argues that far from being excluded on the basis of their religion, the 'Alawis were in fact fully integrated into the provincial administrative order. Profiting from the economic development of the coastal highlands, particularly in the Ottoman period, they fostered a new class of local notables and tribal leaders, participated in the modernizing educational, political, and military reforms of the nineteenth century, and expanded their area of settlement beyond its traditional mountain borders to emerge from centuries of Sunni imperial rule as a bona fide sectarian community. Using an impressive array of primary materials spanning nearly ten centuries, A History of the 'Alawis provides a crucial new narrative about the development of 'Alawi society."--Publisher's description.

Nosairians --- History. --- Nuṣayrīs --- Nosairians. --- Nusairier. --- Aleviten. --- Geschichte. --- Islam. --- Religionsgemeinschaft. --- Schiiten. --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Syria. --- Syrien. --- Syrie.

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Alaouites --- Alawieten --- Alawijin --- Alawis --- Alawites --- Alawiyin --- Alevi-Bektashi --- Alevis --- Alevites --- Alouite --- Ansarii --- Nosairians --- Nossarii --- Nusayris --- Nosairians. --- Islamic sects --- Islam --- Islam and politics. --- Bektashi. --- Islamic sects - Turkey. --- Islam - Turkey.

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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