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Alawites

ethnoreligious group centered in the Levant
Organization religious_group Q209496
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Summary

Alawites is a religious group[1]. Alawites draws 8,845 Wikipedia views per month (religious group category, ranking #2 of 12).[2]

Key Facts

  • Religion or worldview: Alawism[3]
  • Instance of: sect[4]
  • Founder: Ibn Nusayr[5], Al-Khaṣībī[6]
  • Commons category: Alawites[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Alawites[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Islamskiy entsiklopedicheskiy slovar'[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12]
  • Native label: علويون[13]

Why It Matters

Alawites has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Alawites is known by 98 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Bashar al-Assad Bassel al-Assad Hafez al-Assad

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Bischrob · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sociomap id → SM251542
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  2. 8w ago · هزيا · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → زخرفة لأسم علي ومحمد وسلمان والذين يمثلون سر ع م س في العقيد
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