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               the  resolution  of  any  and  all    faith,  aesthetics,  agency  and
               subject terms.                        control.
                  From       this,     it      is       This culture characteristic of
               understandable  that  there  are      the  given  branch  of  Islam
               reivindicatórios        different     shows a branch from a second
               movements           for       the     branch,  analyzing  the  relations
               achievement of human rights.          within Islam.
                  For  example,  in  Islam  of          Therefore, later, you can see
               alawite  subdivision,  Omran          that     such     socio-political
               tells us that:                        divisions  led  to  persecutions
                      the  identity  of  the  Alawites   which only stopped when they
                      in  Brazil  builds  having  the   reached surcharges presidential
                      religious  word  associated    power in the 20th century alone
                      with the feeling of belonging   with  Hafez  Al-Assad,  Alawi's
                      to  a  country,  in  case  the   first President.
                      Syria,  since  originate  from    According to Omran:
                      the  mountains  of  the  Arab         the  religious  group  was
                      country  and  he  ma  ntêm
                      strong links. (Omran, 2015: 55)       condemned  by  clerics  of
                                                            the  Sunni  Islam,  as  Ibn
                  Such  extract  supports  the              Taymiyya, who, in a fatwa
               definition    of    francophone              opened  the  jihad  against
               cultural      geography        by            the    Alawites     which
               assigning to the ability to create           provoked, for long, intense
                                                            persecution  and  prejudice
               territories,   exceeding      the            in  relation  to  the  group.
               topofilico  sentiment  with  the             (Omran, 2015: 55)
               Earth,     with    characteristic
               elements  of  the  landscape             In  the  Shi'a  Islam  and  its
               (mountains)  and  materializing       aspects,  beyond  tradition  builds
               in practice religious.                one of the sources of Islamic law,
                  Covers  all  aspects  of  life,    there are works written by early
               bringing the idea of full code of     Imams as much as Compendium
               conduct,  showing  elements  of       as  much  as  a  compilation  of
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