 Their madhhab is established by Ibn Nusayr, and their aqidah is developed by Al-Khaṣībī.They follow "Cillī" aqidah of ""Maymūn ibn Abu’l-Qāsim Sulaiman ibn Ahmad ibn at-Tabarānī fiqh"" of the ‘Alawis.One million three hundred and fifty thousand of them lived in Syria and Lebanon in 1970.