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e. The Epistles of Wisdom (Arabic: رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة, romanized: Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma) is a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the Druze faith native to the Levant, which has currently close to a million practitioners. [1] The text revolves around the acknowledgement and worship of al-Hakim bi-Amr ...
A Druze woman preparing a traditional dish. The Druze community maintains Arabic language and culture as core elements of their identity. [253] [32] [35] Arabic is their primary language, and Druze cultural practices and traditions are deeply intertwined with the broader Arab heritage.
As is the case for the Circassian community, only men from the community are drafted, while women are exempted; in contrast with Jews, for whom military service is also mandatory for women. [10] Druzism, the Druze ethnic religion, developed out of Isma'ilism, a branch of Shia Islam, but the Druze do not consider themselves Muslims.
Left to right: Christian woman from Zahlé, Lebanese Druze woman, and a Christian woman from Zgharta (1873). After fierce fighting erupted between the Druze and Maronite populations in the Mount Lebanon region in 1860. France and other Western nations then pressured the Ottomans to set up a semiautonomous region known as a Mutasarrifate. [317]
There are estimated to be less than 1 million Druze worldwide. [4] The Druze, who refer to themselves as al-Muwahhideen, or "believers in one God," are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut. [2] Lebanon has the world's second largest Druze population, after Syria.
May Arslan (1928–2013) was a Lebanese Druze woman who was a member of the Arslan family, and her father was Shakib Arslan. She was the mother of Walid Jumblatt and the spouse of Kamal Jumblatt, founder and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party. Biography. Arslan was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1928 into a well-established Druze family.
The Druze made up about 3.2 percent of the population of Syria in 2010. [2] [3] The Druze are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Damascus in the area known officially as Jabal al-Druze. [4] Druze is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Syria has the largest Druze population in the world, [12 ...
t. e. Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Darazi (Arabic: محمد بن إسماعيل الدرزي, romanized:Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Darazī) was an 11th-century Isma'ili preacher and early leader of the Druze faith who was labeled a heretic in 1016 and subsequently executed in 1018 by the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r.996–1021).