Alawites (Arabic: العلويون, romanized: al-ʿAlawiyyūn) are an ethnoreligious group, many of whom identify as Arabs, who live primarily in Syria and elsewhere in the Levant. They follow Alawism, an offshoot of Shia Islam as a ghulat branch during the ninth century.
Alawites (Arabic: العلويون, romanized: al-ʿAlawiyyūn) are an ethnoreligious group, many of whom identify as Arabs, who live primarily in Syria and elsewhere in the Levant. They follow Alawism, an offshoot of Shia Islam as a ghulat branch during the ninth century.
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