Alawiyah علوية | |||||||||||||||
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Pembela lang Alawiyah di Baniyas, Syria, sewaktu Perang Dunia Kedua | |||||||||||||||
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Lebih kurang 4 juta | |||||||||||||||
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Syiah | |||||||||||||||
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al-Quran, Kitab al Majmu[7] | |||||||||||||||
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Alawiyah, Alawit, Syiah, Ansari atau al-Anṣariyyah merupakan kumpulan agama terkemuka yang dilihat mistik dan sinkretik. Kumpulan agama ini berpusat di Syria dan sering digambarkan sebagai cabang Islam Syiah.
The Alawis have been present in modern-day Lebanon since the 16th century and are estimated to number 100,000 today, mostly in Akkar and Tripoli. The sect is managed through the Islamic Alawi Union, a council of 600 members that are elected every four years.
Their prayer book, the source of religious instruction, is the Kitāb al-Majmu‘, believed to be derived from Ismā‘īlī writings. Alawis study the Qur'ān and recognize the five pillars of Islam, which they interpret in a wholly allegorical sense to fit community tenets.