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The name Druze is derived from the name of Muhammad bin Ismail Nashtakin ad-Darazī (from Persian darzi, "seamster") who was an early preacher. Although the Druze consider ad-Darazī a heretic, [70] the name has been used to identify them, possibly by their historical opponents as a way to attach their community with ad-Darazi's poor reputation.
The Druze citizens of Israel are Arabic in language and culture, [67] and their mother tongue is the Arabic language. The Druze Arabic dialect, especially in the villages, is often different from the other regional Arabic dialects. Druze Arabic dialect is distinguished from others by retention of the phoneme /q/. [68]
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 ...
In Israel, the Druze community is also unique in that many serve in the Israel Defense Forces, a distinction from some other Arab communities. They have a complex relationship there, balancing ...
The Jumblatt family (Arabic: جنبلاط, originally Kurdish: جانپولاد Canpolad, meaning "steel-bodied" or "soul of steel"), [1] also transliterated as Joumblatt and Junblat) is a Druze political dynasty. The current head of the family is veteran politician Walid Jumblatt, the son and successor of Kamal Jumblatt, one of the most ...
The Druze are an Arab sect of roughly one million people who primarily live in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Originating in Egypt in the 11th century, the group practices an offshoot of Islam which ...
Religion. Amin Tarif, religious leader of the Druze in Palestine and Israel. Suliman Bashear – Palestinian-Israeli scholar of Islam. Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah – central religious figure of the faith and sixth Imam - Caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate. Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad – founding religious leader.
Sultan al-Atrash (Arabic: سلطان الأطرش, romanized: Sulṭān al-ʾAṭrash; 5 March 1891 – 26 March 1982) was a Syrian Druze nationalist revolutionary who led the Great Syrian Revolt against the French colonial administration in Syria. One of the most influential figures in Syrian and Druze history, he played a major role in ...