Ali al-Hadi
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Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hadi, also known as Ali al-Naqi, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the tenth Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, succeeding his father Muhammad al-Jawad. After the death
16th‑century Ottoman iconographic depiction of Ali al-Hadi
The Al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, where Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari, the tenth and eleventh Imams, are buried. It is a holy site in Shia Islam.
Calligraphic inscription of al-Hadi's name on the zarih of Imam Husayn, Karbala
Alawites
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Alawites are an ethnoreligious group, many of whom identify as Arabs, who live primarily in Syria and elsewhere in the Levant. They follow Alawism, an offshoot of Shia Islam as a ghulat branch during
Ali al-Hadi
…Probably related to this group was Ibn Nusayr, who considered Ali al-Hadi to be divine and claimed to be his prophet. He is considered the founder of the Nusayris, a now-extinct Ghali sect of Shia. The Ghulat (lit. 'exaggerators') believed in the divinity of the Shia Imams. Those who accepted the imamate of Ja'far…
Alawites celebrating at a festival in Baniyas, Syria during World War II
An Alawite falconer photographed by Frank Hurley in Baniyas, Syria during World War II.
Saleh al-Ali, leader of the Alawite revolt of 1919
An Alawite woman gleaning in 1938