The scientific session “Knowing the Alawites of Syria” was held on Thursday, October 13, 2022, at the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly in Qom with the lecture of Mohammad Hassan Badiani Neyshaburi, a history researcher and the author of the 14-volume book “Encyclopedia of Alawites and Shiites in Syria”.
The Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) that was established by a group of Shiite elites under the supervision of the great Islamic authority of the Shiites in 1990 to identify, organize, educate and support the followers of Ahl al-Bayt.