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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785671203321
• Autore: Friedman Yaron
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-95083-5; 9786612950834; 90-474-4127-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Collana: Islamic history and civilization, , 0929-2403 ; ; v. 77
• Disciplina: 305.6/97821
• Soggetti: Nosairians - Syria - History; Nosairians - Syria - Religion; Nosairians - Syria - Ethnic identity; Nosairians - Syria - Social conditions; Minorities - Syria; Syria Ethnic relations; Syria Religious life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.