entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status
ENT_ALW_ALI,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested: in Nusayri-Alawi doctrine Ali ibn Abi Talib is the Ma'na, the divine essence/Meaning behind manifestation. Homonym/same person as mainstream Shi'i Imam ENT_ISL_ALI, venerated differently (deified, not merely first Imam).",SRC_FRIEDMAN_NUSAYRI,reviewed
ENT_ALW_AYN_MIM_SIN_DOCTRINE,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested core doctrine: the AMS confession encoding the triad Ma'na-Ism-Bab (Ali-Muhammad-Salman), recited as the foundational creed of the initiated (Bar-Asher & Kofsky 2002).",SRC_BAR_ASHER_KOFSKY,reviewed
ENT_ALW_BAB,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested doctrinal principle: the Gate, third hypostasis emanated from the Name, the mediator of esoteric knowledge, borne by Salman in the Muhammadan cycle.",SRC_HALM_GNOSIS,reviewed
ENT_ALW_IBN_NUSAYR,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested historical figure (d. c. 868): Abu Shu'ayb Muhammad ibn Nusayr al-Namiri al-Numayri, the eponymous founder-prophet of the Nusayriyya, who claimed to be the Bab of the tenth Imam Ali al-Hadi / al-Askari (Friedman 2010).",SRC_FRIEDMAN_NUSAYRI,reviewed
ENT_ALW_ISM,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested doctrinal principle: the Name, the second hypostasis emanated from the Ma'na, the veil of manifestation, borne by Muhammad in the Muhammadan cycle.",SRC_HALM_GNOSIS,reviewed
ENT_ALW_KHASIBI,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested historical figure (d. c. 969): the organizer and systematizer of the Nusayri religion, author of the Kitab al-Hidaya al-Kubra, who established the community in Aleppo and Baghdad (Friedman 2010; Bar-Asher & Kofsky 2002).",SRC_FRIEDMAN_NUSAYRI,reviewed
ENT_ALW_MANA,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested doctrinal principle (Halm 1982; Bar-Asher & Kofsky 2002): the hidden divine essence/Meaning, the first hypostasis of the triad, embodied in each cycle by Ali.",SRC_HALM_GNOSIS,reviewed
ENT_ALW_MUHAMMAD,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested: Muhammad is the Ism (Name) and the hijab/veil through which the Ma'na is manifested. Same person as the Prophet ENT_ISL_MUHAMMAD, theologically subordinated to Ali in Nusayri doctrine (homonym).",SRC_FRIEDMAN_NUSAYRI,reviewed
ENT_ALW_MUQADDASIYYA,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested cosmological collective (Bar-Asher & Kofsky 2002): the five 'orphans/incomparables' (aytam), spiritual hierarchs emanated below the Bab who administer the cosmos. Publicly attested function only.",SRC_BAR_ASHER_KOFSKY,reviewed
ENT_ALW_SALMAN,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested: Salman al-Farisi is the Bab (Gate), the mediating gateway who transmits knowledge of the Ma'na. Same person as ENT_ISL_SALMAN, Companion of the Prophet (homonym).",SRC_FRIEDMAN_NUSAYRI,reviewed
ENT_ALW_SEVEN_CYCLES,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested doctrine (Halm 1982; Bar-Asher & Kofsky 2002): the Ma'na manifests through seven historical cycles, each with its own Ism and Bab, culminating in the Ali-Muhammad-Salman (Muhammadan) cycle.",SRC_BAR_ASHER_KOFSKY,reviewed
ENT_ALW_TAQAMMUS,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested doctrine: belief in the transmigration/metempsychosis of souls (taqammus), tied to the cyclical descent of the divine and the moral state of the initiate (Friedman 2010).",SRC_FRIEDMAN_NUSAYRI,reviewed
ENT_ALW_TRINITY,PER_ALAWITE,high,"Attested (Friedman 2010; Bar-Asher & Kofsky 2002) as the central Nusayri-Alawi triad of three letters: Ayn (Ali), Mim (Muhammad), Sin (Salman). Cohort hub.",SRC_FRIEDMAN_NUSAYRI,reviewed