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Kitab al Majmu is a holy book of the Alawites .1It is a complete guide on all the prophets of the worlds and their purpose for mankind hence the name Majmu . v t e2
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Kitab al-Majmu‘ ( "The Book of the Collection") is a holy book of the ‘Alawi sect of Islam .
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Kitab al-Majmu‘ ( "The Book of the Collection") is a book which is claimed by some Sunni Muslims to be the main source of teaching of the ‘Alawi sect of Islam .They claim the book is not openly published and instead is passed down from initiated Master to Apprentice ; however, the book has been published by Western scholars, and both the original Arabic and French translation are available on the Internet Archive.The Alawis, however, reject this book as baseless and state that their main source of teaching is Nahj al-Balagha .According to Matti Moosa: Kitab al-Majmu contains sixteen suras (chapters) incorporated by Sulayman al-Adani in his Kitab al-Bakura ...Kitab al-Majmu was published with a French translation by René Dussaud in his Histoire et Religion des Nosairis , 161-98.The Arabic text of the same is found in Abu Musa al-Hariri's al-Alawiyyun al-Alawiyya (Dubai: Dar al-Itisam, 1980), 145-74.The man who revealed the alleged book was Sulayman al-Adani, an Alawite convert to Christianity.
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Kitab al-Majmu‘ ( "The Book of the Collection") is a book which is claimed by some Sunni Muslims and former Alawites to be the main source of teaching of the ‘Alawi sect of Islam . They claim the book is not openly published and instead is passed down from initiated Master to Apprentice ; however, the book has been published by Western scholars, and both the original Arabic and French translation are available on the Internet Archive. The Alawis, however, reject this book as baseless and state that their main source of teaching is Nahj al-Balagha . According to Matti Moosa: Kitab al-Majmu contains sixteen suras (chapters) incorporated by Sulayman al-Adani in his Kitab al-Bakura ... Kitab al-Majmu was published with a French translation by René Dussaud in his Histoire et Religion des Nosairis , 161-98. The Arabic text of the same is found in Abu Musa al-Hariri's al-Alawiyyun al-Alawiyya (Dubai: Dar al-Itisam, 1980), 145-74. An English translation by Edward E. The man who revealed the alleged book was Sulayman al-Adani, an Alawite convert to Christianity. It is also known as al-Dustoor , and has been attributed to an 11th-century Alawite missionary, al-Maymoun al-Tabarani .Yaron Friedman suggests that Kitab al-Majmu was influenced by Jewish esoteric traditions found in the Sefer Yetzirah ; Friedman in particular points to the similarity of the texts in their letter mysticism, comparing Sefer Yetzirah's "great secret" ( sod gadol ) of aleph-mem-shīn to Kitab al-Majmu's secret ( sirr ) of ʿayn-mīm-sīn .Contemporary Alawis insist that the Kitab al-Majmu is fabricated, some even suggesting that it is a forgery created by 19th century Christian missionaries.
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Arabic religious text Kitab al-Majmu‘ ( "The Book of the Collection") is a book which is claimed by some Sunni Muslims and former Alawites to be the main source of teaching of the ‘Alawi sect of Islam . They claim the book is not openly published and instead is passed down from initiated Master to Apprentice ; however, the book has been published by Western scholars, and both the original Arabic and French translation are available on the Internet Archive. The Alawis, however, reject this book as baseless and state that their main source of teaching is Nahj al-Balagha . According to Matti Moosa: Kitab al-Majmu contains sixteen suras (chapters) incorporated by Sulayman al-Adani in his Kitab al-Bakura ... Kitab al-Majmu was published with a French translation by René Dussaud in his Histoire et Religion des Nosairis , 161-98. The Arabic text of the same is found in Abu Musa al-Hariri's al-Alawiyyun al-Alawiyya (Dubai: Dar al-Itisam, 1980), 145-74. An English translation by Edward E. The man who revealed the alleged book was Sulayman al-Adani, an Alawite convert to Christianity. It is also known as al-Dustoor , and has been attributed to an 11th-century Alawite missionary, al-Maymoun al-Tabarani ; however, Yaron Friedman says that the Dustur and Kitab al-Majmu are different texts and their identification is a mistake. Yaron Friedman suggests that Kitab al-Majmu was influenced by Jewish esoteric traditions found in the Sefer Yetzirah ; Friedman in particular points to the similarity of the texts in their letter mysticism, comparing Sefer Yetzirah's "great secret" ( sod gadol ) of aleph-mem-shīn to Kitab al-Majmu's secret ( sirr ) of ʿayn-mīm-sīn . Contemporary Alawis insist that the Kitab al-Majmu is fabricated, some even suggesting that it is a forgery created by 19th century Christian missionaries.
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Arabic religious text Kitab al-Majmu ( Arabic : كتاب المجموع , romanized : Kitāb al-Majmūʿ , lit. ' Book of the Collection ' ) is a book that is claimed to be a primary source of teaching of Alawism .This claim has been asserted by some Sunni Muslims and former Alawites. They claim the book is not openly published and instead is passed down from initiated Master to Apprentice ; however, the book has been published by Western scholars, and both the original Arabic and French translation are available on the Internet Archive.
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holy book of the alawites
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book attributed to abu sa'id maymun ibn al-qasim al-tabarani
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