单词 | nusayri |
释义 | Nusayrin.adj. Islam. A. n. A member of a minority Shiite sect practising a form of Islam with gnostic and animist elements. Cf. Alawi n., Alawite n., Ansarian n., Ansayri n.This sect originated in Iraq in the mid 9th cent. but took root in Syria after establishing itself at Latakia in the 11th cent. It is now widely dispersed in western and northern Syria and in south-eastern areas of present-day Turkey. Since 1924 it has usually been known as Alawi (see Alawi n. and adj.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > Islamic sects and groups > [noun] > Shiite > person Ismaelite1571 Shia1626 Zaidi1709 Shiite1728 Ansarian1787 Nusayri1792 Ismaili1820 Ansayri1824 sevener1835 Ismaelian1839 Alawi1874 Twelver1876 Alawite1922 Hezbollahi1981 1792 R. Heron tr. C. Niebuhr Trav. Arabia II. xxiv. v. 179 Several circumstances lead me to presume, that, of the other nations in Syria, Kurdes, Druses, Metuaeli, Nassaries [Ger. Nassairîe], and Tschinganes, some are of Arabian ancestry. 1866 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 8 263 These forms of devotion are used by all classes among the Nuṣairîs, and by all the four parties into which the sect is divided. 1898 Baedeker's Palestine & Syria (ed. 3) p. xciv Attempts have recently been made to identify the Nusairîyeh with the Manichæans and other sects... They inhabit the so-called Nusairîyeh Mts. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lix. 311 One Nosairi would not betray another. 1946 A. H. Hourani Syria & Lebanon vii. 123 The Alawis, who are known to be Nusairis, took over from Shi'ism and developed the cult of Ali, whom they regarded as an incarnation of God. 1988 M. Moosa Extremist Shiites xxii. 262 The Nusayris are one of the oldest of the Ghulat Shiite sects. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Nusayris. Cf. Alawi adj., Alawite adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > Islamic sects and groups > [adjective] > Shiite Ismaelian1839 Ismaili1840 Nusayri1872 Alawi1877 Shiitic1884 Zaidi1885 Alawite1925 Amal1976 1872 R. F. Burton & C. F. T. Drake Unexplored Syria I. i. 35 The author of the Giant Cities of Basham..would see similar enormous tombs even in the Jebel Kalbiyah of the Nusayri race. 1958 S. H. Longrigg Syria & Lebanon under French Mandate iv. 130 The Nusayri population..claimed to prefer attachment to the Lebanon itself rather than to Syria, while the Sunni Muslims and many Christians called for all-Syrian unity. 2001 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 121 1 Sato connects the revolt, which was quickly suppressed, to efforts aimed against Nusayri public ritual. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1792 |
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