Ibn Nusayr
Abū Shuʿayb Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr al-Numayri (Arabic: أبو شعيب محمد بن نصير النميري), died after 868, was considered by his followers as the representative (Bāb) of the tenth Twelver Imam, Ali al‐Hadi and of the eleventh Twelver Imam, Hasan al‐Askari, and founder of the Alawites. Ibn Nusayr was known to his followers as a representative (Bab) of al‐Askari and of the twelfth Twelver Imam, Hujjat-Allah al-Mahdi during the Minor Occultation. A rival of his in claiming to be the bāb (door) to the Imams was Abu Yaqub Ishaq, founder of the Ishaqiyya.
Abū Shuʿayb Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr al-Numayri أبو شعيب محمد بن نصير النميري | |
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| Personal | |
| Died | after 868 |
| Religion | Islam |
| Sect | Alawite |
| Founder of | Alawism |
| Philosophy | Aristotelianism, Platonism, Islam |
| Senior posting | |
| Teacher | Ali al‐Hadi, Hasan al‐Askari |
| Initiated | Al-Khaṣībī |
Ibn Nusayr claimed that Ali ibn Hadi held a "divine nature". The followers of Ibn Nusayr are known as the Nusayris (Arabic: نصيري) or, since the 1920s, the Alawis (Arabic: علوي).
Nusayr was an Arab from the northern tribe of Banu Numayr, although it has also been mentioned that he was of Persian origin but was associated with the Arab al-Namir tribe.