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  <abstract>A century after Dussaud's "Histoire et religion des NosairA(R)s" (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 NuaayrA-a ~AlawAs.</abstract>
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