Massacre of the Telal explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 9 May 2017 . Ottoman Empire massacre against Alawites . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190423182731/http://sy-center.net/?p=1512 . 23 April 2019 . 28 May 2018 . Syrian Center for Studies.
  2. Book: Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects . Syracuse University Press . 1987 . 0-8156-2411-5 . 275 . 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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