From Nuṣayrīs to ʿAlawīs: The Religiography of Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī

A disproportionate emphasis on the work of Western European and North American scholars has been a feature of investigations into the development of the academic study of religion. This article seeks to examine how a non-European intellectual, the Syrian Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī (1876-1953), produced and...

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Main Author: Kearney, Jonathan (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 2
Further subjects:B Shīʿī Islam
B heresiography
B Arabic
B Bāṭinī
B Islam
B Nahḍa
B Arabic Print Culture
B Syria
B Heterodoxy
B study of religion
B Nuṣayrīs / ʿAlawīs
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