The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs : an introduction to the religion, history, and identity of the leading minority in Syria /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friedman, Yaron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Islamic history and civilization ; v. 77.
Temas:
Nosairians > Syria > History.
Nosairians > Syria > Religion.
Nosairians > Syria > Ethnic identity.
Nosairians > Syria > Social conditions.
Minorities > Syria > Case studies.
Nuṣayrīs > Syrie > Histoire.
Nuṣayrīs > Syrie > Religion.
Nuṣayrīs > Identité ethnique > Syrie.
Nuṣayrīs > Syrie > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Ethnic relations
Minorities
Nosairians
Nusairier
Minderheit
Syria > Ethnic relations.
Syria > Religious life and customs.
Syria
Syrien
Case studies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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