v_public_cross_tradition_links: 8

The comparative-religion core — every link where one tradition's figure is received, syncretised, equated, or recognised as a cognate of another tradition's (reception_of, received_as, syncretized_with, identified_with, equated_with, aligned_with, cult_form_of). 577 connections across the religions of the ancient and late-antique world.

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rowid	entity	tradition	relationship_type	linked_entity	linked_tradition	confidence	rationale	source_id
8	Ali (the Ma'na / Meaning)	Alawite	reception_of	Ali ibn Abi Talib	Islamic/Shi'a	high	The Alawite deified Ali (Ma'na) is a sectarian reception of the same historical Ali ibn Abi Talib venerated in mainstream/Twelver Shi'ism as first Imam (homonym, same person, divergent theology; Friedman 2010).	SRC_FRIEDMAN_NUSAYRI