Alawi ( ar, علوي), also transliterated as Alevi, Alevi, Alavi, Alawid, or Alawite (french: Alaouite), is an adjective denoting "of or related to
Ali
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam ...
", 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:
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Alawi (sheikhdom)
The Alawi Sheikhdom ( ar, مشيخة العلوي '), or Alawi ( ar, علوي ') — was a Sheikhdom located in the Aden region of southwestern Yemen. Its capital was Al Qasha. The state was abolished in 1967 with the independence of the People ...
, a historic principality in Yemen
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Alawite State
The Alawite State ( ar, دولة جبل العلويين, '; french: État des Alaouites), officially named the Territory of the Alawites (french: territoire des Alaouites), after the locally-dominant Alawites from its inception until its int ...
, a French mandate territory in the coastal area of present-day Syria
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Alavi, Iran (disambiguation) Alavi ( fa, علوي) in Iran may refer to:
* Allahlu, Varzaqan, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Alaviq, Varzaqan, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Alavi, Hamadan, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
* Alavi, Isfahan, ...
, places in Iran
Groups
Dynasties
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'Alawi dynasty
The Alawi dynasty ( ar, سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, translit=sulālat al-ʿalawiyyīn al-fīlāliyyīn) – also rendered in English as Alaouite, Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and reigning d ...
, the current royal family of Morocco since the 17th century
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Alavids
Alid dynasties of northern Iran or Alavids (). In the 9th–14th 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
The Ba 'Alawi sadah or Sadah Ba 'Alawi ( ar-at, السادة آل باعلوي, al-sādatu al-bā'alawiy) are a group of Hadhrami Sayyid families and social group originating in Hadhramaut in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula. Th ...
, a family and social group in Yemen and descendants of Imam Ahmad al-Muhajir through Alawi bin Ubaydillah
Religion
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Alawites
The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Isla ...
, a Shia minority sect in Syria, also known as ''Nusayris''
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Aleviler
Aleviler is an idiom, being used synonymously in Turkish language with Shi'ites, to characterize the Zaydids of Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan; the Bātinī-IsmāʿīlīsBalcıoğlu, Tahir Harimî, ''Türk Tarihinde Mezhep Cereyanları – Th ...
in Turkey
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Alevis
Alevism or Anatolian Alevism (; tr, Alevilik, ''Anadolu Aleviliği'' or ''Kızılbaşlık''; ; az, Ələvilik) is a local Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Alevi Islamic ( ''bāṭenī'') teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, ...
, a Shia minority sect in Turkey
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Bektashiyyah
The Bektashi Order; sq, Tarikati Bektashi; tr, Bektaşi or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi mystic movement originating in the 13th-century. It is named after the Anatolian saint Haji Bektash Wali (d. 1271). The community is currently led ...
, 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
The Alavi Bohras are a Tayyibi Musta'lavi Isma'ili Shi'i Muslim community from Gujarat, India. In India, during the time of the 18th Fatimid Imam Al-Mustansir Billah around 1093 AD in Egypt, the designated learned people (''wulaat'') who w ...
, an Tayyibi-Isma'ili Shia minority sect in India and Pakistan
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Ba 'Alawiyya
The Ba'Alawi tariqa ( ar, طريقة آل باعلوي), also known as the Tariqa Alawiyya is a Sufi order centered in Hadhramawt, Yemen, but now spread across the Indian Ocean rim along with the Hadhrami diaspora. The order is closely tie ...
, a Sunni Sufi order in Yemen, also known as ''Tariqa Alawiyya''
Other uses
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Alawi (name) Alawi ( ar, علاوي) means "follower of Ali" or "descendant of Ali", and is a common surname (and sometimes as a given name) in the Muslim world. In Arab countries occupied by the British Empire, the name is transliterated as "Alawi". In Arab cou ...
, a surname and given name
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Alavi (surname)
Notable people with the surname Alavi include:
* Ali Alavi, Theoretical chemist
* Patrick Alavi, a German Musician
* Abass Alavi, is Professor of Radiology and Neurology
* Abrar Alvi, was an Indian film writer, director and actor
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, a surname
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Hawaiʻi creeper
The Hawaii creeper, Hawaii creeper or ʻalawī (''Loxops mana'') is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper endemic to the Big Island of Hawaii. Its natural habitats are dry forests and montane moist forests at elevations of . There are a total of ...
, also known as ʻalawī
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Alvi (disambiguation)
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