‘Alawi Muslims in Argentina: religious and political identity in the diaspora

@article{Montenegro2017AlawiMI,
  title={‘Alawi Muslims in Argentina: religious and political identity in the diaspora},
  author={Silvia Montenegro},
  journal={Contemporary Islam},
  year={2017},
  volume={12},
  pages={23 - 38},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:255312769}
}
This article examines contemporary aspects of the identity construction of the ‘Alawi diaspora in Argentina. In the local context, the preservation of ‘Alawi singularity has so far been a key element in the group’s identity. The strategies for integration as legitimate Muslims in the wider Islam and the closeness to Shi’ism are relatively independent of how these processes took place in the homeland. I first describe the geography of the diaspora in Argentina, comprising the spaces and… 
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