Alawis are also called as Nusayri-Alawis. The Nusayri-Alawis are Muslim Shia sect that split off from the major stream of the Islam at the end of ninth century. The Alawis were one of the last Ghulat (exaggerators) sects of Iraq. These groups of mystics were nick-named Ghulat by their rivals
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