The Nuṣayrī - 'Alawīs

The Nuṣayrī - 'AlawīsFriedman offers new and updated research on the Nusayr Alaw 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 Nosairs (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 Nuayr Alaw sect

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This work provides fascinating insights into what today's poets find of special interest in their forebears

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Stanton emphasized reform of the private sphere of the family as central to achieving women’s equality