Syria's Alawite Future Post-Assad

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Alawites have long been considered heretical almost unanimously by Sunni and Shiite clerical authorities since it emerged in the ninth century .

Bashar al-Assad's downfall leaves not merely a vacuum of power in Syria , but a nearly endless list of unanswered questions.

What happens to that community now will say a great deal about whether post-Assad Syria coheres into a stable, pluralistic nation.

It would be an ironic echo of the failed French Alawite-state project of the 1920s . In large part because of their own disunity, the Alawites never got their independent state. But under the Assads , they led a coalition that ruled Syria for more than half a century. They might soon attempt to return to the de facto independence within Syria that they once inadvertently exchanged for control over the entire nation. What is clear is that the long era of Alawite dominance in Syria is finally over..

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