Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopedia Iranica |
Publisher | Columbia University |
Pages | 68-70 |
Volume | XVI |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2010 |
Abstract
ḴAṢIBI, ḤOSAYN B. ḤAMDĀN AL-JONBALĀNI, ABU ʿABD-ALLĀH (d. 969), founder of Noṣayrism. The mystical Shiʿite sect whose present-day followers in Syria and southern Turkey call themselves ʿAlawis (Turk. Alevis), became widespread throughout Iraq and Syria as it was backed by the Ḥamdānids of Aleppo (r. 944-1004) and the Buyids of Baghdad (r. 945-1055).