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the following questions will be asked: How did Protestant missionaries integrate the Nuṣayrīs into their millenarian belief in a new social order? By what means did the Ottoman pacifying or “civilizing” mission attempt to integrate the Nuṣayrīs? And how did the Nuṣayrīs respond to the efforts of the Christian Missionaries and the Ottoman state? The article will also challenge the view that the name “ʿAlawī” was only used after 1920.I learned that the difference between living and dying is managing fear.

After summarizing the attitude of the provincial Syrian administration and of Istanbul toward the Nuṣayrīs in the first decades of the 19th century, the article will give an overview of the developments regarding the Nuṣayrīs during the Tanzimat and the Hamidian era until roughly the Young Turk revolution. In this process, the status of the Nuṣayrīs underwent changes. Due to fear of infiltration of heterodox Muslims by foreigners, especially by American and English Protestant missionaries, the Sultan was pressed to attract them to the Ḥanafī-Sunnī school. In the Ottoman Empire real interest in the Nuṣayrīs started during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). Only in recent years this kind of research intensified.

But historical knowledge and information about them in the 19th century, based on Ottoman sources has been rather meager. Based on their writings, the religious beliefs of the Nuṣayrīs have been studied since the 19th century.
