Massacre of the Telal

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Telal massacre
LocationFlag of Ottoman.svg Ottoman Syria
Date1516
Target Alawis and Shiites
Deaths9,400
Perpetrator Ottoman Empire and Sunnis
Motive Anti-Alawism
Anti-Shi'ism

Massacre of the Telal occurred in 1517 when Ottoman Turks fully took control of Syria at the end of the Ottoman-Mamluk war. [1] The massacre began when the Ottoman Sultan Selim I summoned some Sunnite religious leaders and obtained from them a fatwa to fight "infidel" Alawis. The ensuing massacre resulted in the deaths of 9,400 Shiite men assembled in Aleppo. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Ottoman Empire massacre against Alawites". Syrian Center for Studies. 9 May 2017. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Contemporary issues in the Middle East. Syracuse University Press. 1987. p. 275. ISBN   0-8156-2411-5. Sultan Selim I summoned some Sunnite religious men and obtained from them a fatwa (juristic opinion) to fight the "infidel Alawis," or Shiites. It is estimated that 9,400 Shiite men assembled in Aleppo; all were maliciously murdered by the order of the Ottoman Sultan on the sanction of the Sunnite religious leader
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