People / group
Alawites
The Alawites are a religious community that emerged from Shia Islam in the 9th and 10th centuries, named after the caliph Ali and associated with the teacher Ibn Nusayr, hence the older name Nusayris. Concentrated in the coastal mountains of north-western Syria and around Antakya in Turkey, they were long marginalised under the Ottomans. Under the French Mandate they had their own Alawite State, and from 1970 the Alawite Assad family ruled Syria.
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