ebooks Venice and its Jews: 500 Years Since the Founding of the Ghetto by Lenore Rosenberg in History

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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 Nosairis (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.