Islamic Studies: Other

A century after Dussaud's Histoire et religion des Nosairîs (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-‘Alawīs.

This fascinating history – the first of its kind on the development of a local Baháʾí community in Iran – is lucidly translated for the first time into English by Dr. Ahang Rabbani, is carefully annotated and supplemented with many details and scholarly notes about key personalities and places of interest to students of Iranian history.