The book is the first detailed study on the Nusayri-Alawi community of Cilicia available in a Western language. The Alawis are an Arabic speaking religious minority of ca. 300,000 people living in the
For readers familiar with the 2004 mother text, Ambros lists substantives, adjectives, and participles of verbs that appear in the Arabic of the Koran. The arrangement is topical, with sections such a