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Kais M. Firro
The ?law?s in Modern Syria: From Nu?ayr?ya to Islam via ?law?ya
The ?Alaw?s in Syria have long been viewed as an esoteric Shi?? sect, known to outsiders as extremist and considered by their Muslim neighbors as heretics. As they kept their beliefs in secret, we have no published accounts of the community’s tenets by insiders until the end of the Ottoman period. This article analyzes the religious arguments by which insiders of the community have been attempting to integrate into Islam. It does so by focusing on the ?law? writings since the Mandate when ?law?s began formulating new historical and religious claims to help facilitate the adoption of nationalism together with Islamism.
Der Islam, Walter de Gruyter
Print ISSN: 0021-1818
Volume: 82, 04/2005
Pages: 1 - 31