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The patriarch's unprecedented visit appeared to seal a budding alliance between the sects.
Brotherhood leaders have acknowledged a divide between the sects, but said it was rooted in politics rather than theology.
Thousands of people have died in clashes between the sects that beset the country for 15 years, but that had appeared to be ebbing.
Syria's third city, Homs, and its surrounding hinterland is a patchwork of Allawite and Sunni enclaves and tensions between the sects have increasingly spilled over into violence.
Our correspondent grew up in Diyala when intermarriage between the sects was common, and his family is a mixture of Sunni and Shiite.
So far, though, the attacks do not appear to have turned the political tensions into violence between the sects on the streets.
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The relationship between the sect's core settlement here and its outpost in Texas called the Yearning for Zion ranch, was complex.
A similar altercation between the sect and the army occurred last year during a pilgrim procession.
"At any moment, there will be war between the two sects," he said.
The main doctrinal difference between the two sects centres on the question of Vishnu's grace.
In Zabadani and elsewhere, protesters still preach civil disobedience while also seeking to promote harmony between the religious sects.
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