Alawi (), also transliterated as Alevi, Alevi, Alavi, Alvi, Alawid, or Alawite (), is an adjective denoting "of or related to
Ali", the Prophet Muhammad's cousin. As a proper noun it is used by individuals, dynasties, places, and religious sects and organizations who identify as being either descendants or followers of Ali. It may refer to:
Places
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Alawi (sheikhdom), a historic principality in Yemen
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Alawi Sultanate, the pre-colonial state in Morocco ruled by the Alawi dynasty
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Alawite State, a French mandate territory in the coastal area of present-day Syria
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Alavi, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
Groups
Dynasties
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Alawids, the descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib, through his wives whom he married after the death of Fatima, the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Alawi dynasty
The Alawi dynasty () – also rendered in English as Alaouite, Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and reigning dynasty. They are an Arab Sharifian dynasty and claim descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his ...
, the current royal family of Morocco since the 17th century
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Alawiyya dynasty, the former royal family of Egypt and Sudan
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Alavids
Alid dynasties of northern Iran or Alavids (). In the 9th–10th centuries, the northern Iranian regions of Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan, sandwiched between the Caspian Sea and the Alborz range, came under the rule of a number of Arab Alid dyna ...
, the Zaydi Alid dynasty of Tabaristan in northern Iran during the 9th and 10th centuries
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Ba 'Alawi sada, a family and social group in Yemen and descendants of Imam Ahmad al-Muhajir through Alawi bin Ubaydillah
Religion
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Alawites
Alawites () are an Arab ethnoreligious group who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism, a sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ''ghulat'' branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate Ali ...
, a minority sect in Syria, also known as ''Nusayris''
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Aleviler in Turkey
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Alevis, a Shia minority sect in Turkey
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Bektashiyyah, a related school or sect in Turkey and the Balkans
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Kızılbaşlar, a sub-sect of the Alevis
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Alavi Bohra, an Tayyibi-Isma'ili Shia minority sect in India and Pakistan
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Ba 'Alawiyya, a Sunni Sufi order in Yemen, also known as ''Tariqa Alawiyya''
Other uses
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Alawi (name), a surname and given name
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Alavi (surname), a surname
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Hawaiʻi creeper, also known as ʻalawī
See also
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Alvi (disambiguation)
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