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Harvard University. The Druze are an ethnoreligious group concentrated in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel with around one million adherents worldwide. The Druze follow a millenarian offshoot of Isma'ili Shi'ism. Followers emphasize Abrahamic monotheism but consider the religion as separate from Islam.
Leur religion, le druzisme (ou unitarisme druze), est une doctrine philosophique fondée sur l'initiation à la partie ésotérique de la religion musulmane 8. Elle est considérée comme ayant été initialement une école de l'ismaélisme.
Israeli Druze or Druze Israelis (Arabic: الدروز الإسرائيليون; Hebrew: דְּרוּזִים יִשְׂרְאֵלִים) are an ethnoreligious minority among the Arab citizens of Israel. [2] They maintain Arabic language and culture as integral parts of their identity, and Arabic is their primary language.
Druze (/ ˈdruːz /; [18] Arabic: دروز; Durūz, plural Druzes) is an Arab religious sect and community. It is estimated that there are more than 1 million Druzes in the world today, and most of them live in the Middle Eastern countries, especially in Lebanon and Syria.
Christianity and Druze are Abrahamic religions that share a historical traditional connection with some major theological differences. [2] The two faiths share a common place of origin in the Middle East and are both monotheistic. [3]
Druze are a small Middle Eastern religious sect characterized by an eclectic system of doctrines and by a cohesion and loyalty among its members (at times politically significant) that have enabled them to maintain for centuries their close-knit identity and distinctive faith.
The Lebanese Druze (Arabic: دروز لبنان, romanized: durūz lubnān) are an ethnoreligious group [1] constituting about 5.2 percent [2] of the population of Lebanon. They follow the Druze faith, which is an esoteric Abrahamic religion originating from the Near East, and self identify as unitarians (Arabic: موحدين, romanized ...
The Druze religion has its roots in Ismailism, a religio-philosophical movement that founded the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt in the tenth century. During the reign of al-Hakim (996 - 1021), the Druze creed came into being, blending Islamic monotheism with Greek philosophy and Hindu influences.
With a community of little more than 100,000 in 1949 or roughly three percent of the Syrian population, the Druze of Syria's southwestern mountains constituted a potent force in Syrian politics and played a leading role in the nationalist struggle against the French.
Druze in Jordan refers to adherents of the Druze faith, an ethnoreligious [2] esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as unitarians (Muwahhideen). [3] Druze faith is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion, and Druze do not identify as Muslims. [4] [5] [6]