Alawite doctrine:
Who are the Alawites whose religion Syrian President Bashar al-Assad professes, and from what sect?
Alawites, also known pejoratively as Nusayris, are an ethno-religious group living primarily in the Levant, a sect originating from Shiite Islam. Alawites revere Ali bin Abi Talib, who is considered the first imam of the Twelver school. The group is believed to have been founded by Muhammad ibn Nusayr in the 9th century. Ibn Nusayr was a student of the tenth Twelver Imam Ali al-Hadi and the eleventh Imam al-Hasan al-Askari. For this reason, the Alawites are also called Nusayris
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Since Hafez al-Assad assumed power through the Corrective Movement in 1970, the government has been dominated by a political elite led by the Alawite Assad family. During the Islamic uprising in Syria in the 1970s and 1980s, the establishment came under pressure. The Syrian civil war has created even greater pressures
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Alawism is a method, not a sect, because it considers the Islamic religion to be its only religion, and its way of understanding Islam is mystical, stemming from the approach of Ali bin Abi Talib in understanding Islam, and the origins of the Nusayri mystical method rely on four main pillars, which are:
The Qur’an
Prophetic hadiths and Sunnah
Consensus
Mind
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The number of Nusayris in Syria does not exceed between 5-7% of the population of 23 million. 87% are Sunni Arab Muslims.
The regime falsified the number of its sect, sometimes claiming 12% and sometimes 10%. During the revolution, the Nusayri regime forcibly displaced about 14 million Muslims and killed 2 million Muslims. Its war was sectarian and brought in Shiites from everywhere as a demographic change.
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