Yaron Friedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 541229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaron Friedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedman |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDMAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1460-1355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The powerful arrows’ – an unknown nineteenth century fatwa against the Nusayri-Alawi sect in Syria
The enigma of the number of ʿAlawis in Syria
The separatist Alawi petition to the French Prime Minister Léon Blum (1936)
This article focuses on a controversial document that has not yet been studied in depth. It is a petition sent by an Alawi separatist leader from Latakia (Syria) to the newly elected French prime minister in 1936. Its aim was to persuade the French that their decision to grant Syria independence and to incorporate the Alawi district to Syria would be a mistake that could endanger the safety of the sect. This article presents for the first time in…
Musa al-Sadr and the missing fatwa concerning the ʿAlawi religion
This article aims to correct a common inaccuracy in the study of Musa al-Sadr’s politico-religious activity vis-a-vis the Syrian ʿAlawi regime. The thesis presented by the author is that Shīʿi authorities in Lebanon provided a religious statement that the ʿAlawis are Jaʿfari Muslims, but that this statement did not come from al-Sadr himself as many historians claim. Tracing the source of this inaccuracy leads to western research from 1986. In ord…
The Alawi legacy of heroes
The aim of this article is to provide evidence that the legacy of the Nu?ayr?- ?Alaw? Heroes has continued from medieval times to the present, where we can see it in the ongoing civil war in SyriaSupplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2022.2044317
Andrew D. Buck. The Principality of Antioch and Its Frontiers in the Twelfth Century
This book fills a lacuna in the historiography of the Latin principality of Antioch. From the publication of Claude Cahen’s influential La Syrie du Nord (1940) up to Thomas Asbridge’s The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098–1130 (2000), most historians have addressed Antioch’s early, formative period, with interest in the principality waning for the period after the battle known as Ager Sanguinis (1119). Asbridge’s book broke the ground…
How to End Holy War
Crusaders and Muslims each applied to their conflict in the Latin East a doctrine of holy war. Although so ideological a stance toward each other would seem to preclude peacemaking efforts, some 120 treaties were signed between parties to the conflict during the two-century Latin presence in the Holy Land (1097 - 1291). Explored here is how each party overcame this incongruity between ideology and praxis and sought a "small peace," which is tempo…
Introduction
In this introduction to part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium "Peace by Other Means," the journal's editor reflects on the difference between the contributions to parts 1 and 2. Whereas the first installment concentrated on ethnography, the second focuses on the peacemaking repertoire of the Greco-Latin tradition, whose basis is psychological. That tradition is characterized by its refusal of wishful thinking about human nature and, in particu…
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East
Ibn Taymiyya’s Fatāwā against the Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawī Sect
The view of Sunnī scholars about minorities and sects in the medieval Muslim world has a crucial influence on their actual image in the Middle East. While Šīʿīsm is considered a fifth school ( maḏhab ) in Islam today, Sunni authorities have never accepted such sects as Bahāʾīs, Druzes and Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs as part of Islam. This rejection of what Sunnīs consider as heretical sects contributed to their persecution and isolation, which lasted until t…
Miracle, Meaning and Narrative in the Latin East
In medieval narrative the First Crusade and the founding of the Latin kingdom were perceived as Gesta Dei per Francos – God’s own deed. Having no doubt that the success of the First Crusade was a miracle, God’s intervention in history, the chroniclers’ rendering of events was accordingly replete with miracles, such as the discovery of the Holy Lance in Antioch and the saints’ taking an active role in the battle against Kirbogha of Mosul in 1098. …
Encounter between Enemies
This fascinating study examines the customs, legal codes, and socioeconomic mechanisms that evolved from the initial Christian-Muslim encounter on Crusader battlefields. It pinpoints changes in European mentality, and conduct of war, tracing acculturation processes in Frankish society in the Levant. These changes emerged from the need to redeem captives, making payment of ransom to the infidel conceivable and acceptable. The book pays special att…
Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions
Miracle, Meaning and Narrative in the Latin East
In medieval narrative the First Crusade and the founding of the Latin kingdom were perceived as Gesta Dei per Francos – God’s own deed. Having no doubt that the success of the First Crusade was a miracle, God’s intervention in history, the chroniclers’ rendering of events was accordingly replete with miracles, such as the discovery of the Holy Lance in Antioch and the saints’ taking an active role in the battle against Kirbogha of Mosul in 1098. …
The separatist Alawi petition to the French Prime Minister Léon Blum (1936)
This article focuses on a controversial document that has not yet been studied in depth. It is a petition sent by an Alawi separatist leader from Latakia (Syria) to the newly elected French prime minister in 1936. Its aim was to persuade the French that their decision to grant Syria independence and to incorporate the Alawi district to Syria would be a mistake that could endanger the safety of the sect. This article presents for the first time in…
Encounter between Enemies
This fascinating study examines the customs, legal codes, and socioeconomic mechanisms that evolved from the initial Christian-Muslim encounter on Crusader battlefields. It pinpoints changes in European mentality, and conduct of war, tracing acculturation processes in Frankish society in the Levant. These changes emerged from the need to redeem captives, making payment of ransom to the infidel conceivable and acceptable. The book pays special att…
Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions
Ibn Taymiyya’s Fatāwā against the Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawī Sect
The view of Sunnī scholars about minorities and sects in the medieval Muslim world has a crucial influence on their actual image in the Middle East. While Šīʿīsm is considered a fifth school ( maḏhab ) in Islam today, Sunni authorities have never accepted such sects as Bahāʾīs, Druzes and Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs as part of Islam. This rejection of what Sunnīs consider as heretical sects contributed to their persecution and isolation, which lasted until t…
Miracle, Meaning and Narrative in the Latin East
In medieval narrative the First Crusade and the founding of the Latin kingdom were perceived as Gesta Dei per Francos – God’s own deed. Having no doubt that the success of the First Crusade was a miracle, God’s intervention in history, the chroniclers’ rendering of events was accordingly replete with miracles, such as the discovery of the Holy Lance in Antioch and the saints’ taking an active role in the battle against Kirbogha of Mosul in 1098. …
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East
How to End Holy War
Crusaders and Muslims each applied to their conflict in the Latin East a doctrine of holy war. Although so ideological a stance toward each other would seem to preclude peacemaking efforts, some 120 treaties were signed between parties to the conflict during the two-century Latin presence in the Holy Land (1097 - 1291). Explored here is how each party overcame this incongruity between ideology and praxis and sought a "small peace," which is tempo…
Introduction
In this introduction to part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium "Peace by Other Means," the journal's editor reflects on the difference between the contributions to parts 1 and 2. Whereas the first installment concentrated on ethnography, the second focuses on the peacemaking repertoire of the Greco-Latin tradition, whose basis is psychological. That tradition is characterized by its refusal of wishful thinking about human nature and, in particu…
Andrew D. Buck. The Principality of Antioch and Its Frontiers in the Twelfth Century
This book fills a lacuna in the historiography of the Latin principality of Antioch. From the publication of Claude Cahen’s influential La Syrie du Nord (1940) up to Thomas Asbridge’s The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098–1130 (2000), most historians have addressed Antioch’s early, formative period, with interest in the principality waning for the period after the battle known as Ager Sanguinis (1119). Asbridge’s book broke the ground…
Musa al-Sadr and the missing fatwa concerning the ʿAlawi religion
This article aims to correct a common inaccuracy in the study of Musa al-Sadr’s politico-religious activity vis-a-vis the Syrian ʿAlawi regime. The thesis presented by the author is that Shīʿi authorities in Lebanon provided a religious statement that the ʿAlawis are Jaʿfari Muslims, but that this statement did not come from al-Sadr himself as many historians claim. Tracing the source of this inaccuracy leads to western research from 1986. In ord…
The Alawi legacy of heroes
The aim of this article is to provide evidence that the legacy of the Nu?ayr?- ?Alaw? Heroes has continued from medieval times to the present, where we can see it in the ongoing civil war in SyriaSupplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2022.2044317
The separatist Alawi petition to the French Prime Minister Léon Blum (1936)
This article focuses on a controversial document that has not yet been studied in depth. It is a petition sent by an Alawi separatist leader from Latakia (Syria) to the newly elected French prime minister in 1936. Its aim was to persuade the French that their decision to grant Syria independence and to incorporate the Alawi district to Syria would be a mistake that could endanger the safety of the sect. This article presents for the first time in…
The enigma of the number of ʿAlawis in Syria
The powerful arrows’ – an unknown nineteenth century fatwa against the Nusayri-Alawi sect in Syria
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · African history and culture analysis (4 works) · Classics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 works)