Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥamdān al-Khaṣībī (d. 358/969), was the principal founder of the Nuṣayrī sect, known from the twentieth century as the ʿAlawī minority in Syria, Turkey, and Lebanon. Al-Khaṣībī was born in Junbulāʾ, Iraq, in the second half of the third/ninth century, …
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A century after Dussaud's "Histoire et religion des NosairA(R)s" (1900), new light is shed on the medieval history and the mysterious religion of the leading sect in Syria in a comprehensive and updated study of the Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs