Ibn Nusayr

Abū Shuʿayb Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr al-Numayri
أبو شعيب محمد بن نصير النميري
Abū Shuʿayb Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr al-Numayri; أبو شعيب محمد بن نصير النميري
Personal
Died	after 868
Religion	Islam
Sect	Alawite
Organization
Founder of	Alawism
Philosophy	Aristotelianism, Platonism, Islam
Senior posting
Teacher	Ali al‐Hadi, Hasan al‐Askari
Initiated	Al-Khaṣībī

Abū Shuʿayb Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr al-Numayri (Arabic: أبو شعيب محمد بن نصير النميري),^[1] died after 868,^[2] was considered by his followers as the representative (Bāb) of the tenth Twelver Imam, Ali al‐Hadi and of the eleventh Twelver Imam, Hasan al‐Askari, and founder of the Alawites. Ibn Nusayr was known to his followers as a representative (Bab) of al‐Askari and of the twelfth Twelver Imam, Hujjat-Allah al-Mahdi during the Minor Occultation.^[3]^[4] A rival of his in claiming to be the bāb (door) to the Imams was Abu Yaqub Ishaq, founder of the Ishaqiyya.^[5]

Ibn Nusayr claimed that Ali ibn Hadi held a "divine nature".^[6] The followers of Ibn Nusayr are known as the Nusayris^[7] (Arabic: نصيري) or, since the 1920s, the Alawis (Arabic: علوي).^[8]

Nusayr was an Arab from the northern tribe of Banu Numayr,^[9] although it has also been mentioned that he was of Persian origin but was associated with the Arab al-Namir tribe.^[10]

^ Friedman, Yaron (2010). The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History, and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria. Leiden: Brill. p. 6.
^ Friedman, Yaron (2000–2010). "Moḥammad b. Noṣayr". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica.
^ Sorenson, David S. (24 April 2009). An Introduction the Modern Middle East: History, Religion, Political Economy ... - David S. Sorenson - Google Boeken. ISBN 9780786732517. Retrieved 2013-01-04.
^ Corbin, Henry (1998). The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy - Henry Corbin - Google Boeken. ISBN 9781556432699. Retrieved 2013-01-04.
^ Matti Moosa (1987). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. p. 267. ISBN 9780815624110.
^ Madeleine Pelner Cosman; Linda Gale Jones (2009). "The Nusayriyya Alawis". Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set. Infobase Publishing. pp. 406, 407. ISBN 978-1-4381-0907-7.
^ Encyclopedia Iranica, "NOṢAYRIS"
^ Matti Moosa (1987). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. p. 262. ISBN 9780815624110.
^ Friedman, Yaron (2010). The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History, and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria. Leiden: Brill. p. 7.
^ Matti Moosa (1987). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. p. 259. ISBN 9780815624110.

[1] Friedman, Yaron (2010). The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History, and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria. Leiden: Brill. p. 6.

[2] Friedman, Yaron (2000–2010). "Moḥammad b. Noṣayr". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica.

[3] Sorenson, David S. (24 April 2009). An Introduction the Modern Middle East: History, Religion, Political Economy ... - David S. Sorenson - Google Boeken. ISBN 9780786732517. Retrieved 2013-01-04.

[4] Corbin, Henry (1998). The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy - Henry Corbin - Google Boeken. ISBN 9781556432699. Retrieved 2013-01-04.

[5] Matti Moosa (1987). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. p. 267. ISBN 9780815624110.

[6] Madeleine Pelner Cosman; Linda Gale Jones (2009). "The Nusayriyya Alawis". Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set. Infobase Publishing. pp. 406, 407. ISBN 978-1-4381-0907-7.

[7] Encyclopedia Iranica, "NOṢAYRIS"

[8] Matti Moosa (1987). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. p. 262. ISBN 9780815624110.

[9] Friedman, Yaron (2010). The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History, and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria. Leiden: Brill. p. 7.

[10] Matti Moosa (1987). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. p. 259. ISBN 9780815624110.

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