books.google.com - Friedman offers new and updated research on the Nusayr - Alaw sect, today a leading group in Syria, covering a variety of aspects and focusing on the Middle Ages. A century after Dussaud's "Histoire et religion des Nosair s" (1900), he reviews the history and religion of the sect in the light of old...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Nu%E1%B9%A3ayr%C4%AB_%CA%BBAlaw%C4%ABs.html?id=3GB31QSFmVYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs
