@inbook {25233, title = {Syria{\textquoteright}s Alawis and Shi{\textquoteright}ism}, booktitle = {Shi{\textquoteright}ism, Resistance and Revolution}, year = {1987}, note = {The English pdf is the reprint from Kramer{\textquoteright}s collected volume Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival (1996). The Hebrew translation appeared in a collected volume published in 1991. The Persian translation appeared in a Persian translation of\ Shi{\textquoteright}ism, Resistance, and Revolution, published in Tehran in 1989-90.}, pages = {237-54}, publisher = {Westview Press}, organization = {Westview Press}, address = {Boulder, CO}, abstract = {An analysis of the effort by Syria{\textquoteright}s politically dominant Alawi minority to secure legitimation as Muslim, and the resistance to that effort by Syria{\textquoteright}s Sunni majority.}, author = {Martin Kramer}, editor = {Martin Kramer} }