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t. 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.
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]
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. [11] [12 ...
The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid "People of Unitarianism or Monotheism" or "al-Muwaḥḥidūn." "The Druze follow a lifestyle of isolation where no conversion is allowed, neither out of, or into, the religion. When Druze live among people of other religions, they try to blend in, in order to protect their religion and their own safety.
A shrine dedicated to Baha al-Din, probably identical with al-Muqtana, is located at the Druze village of Beitegen in Upper Galilee, Israel. Al-Muqtana remained the head of the Druze missionary movement until 1042, when he issued his farewell epistle (Risālat al-Ghayba, 'Epistle of Occultation'), in which he announced his retirement into ...
Biography. Fatma Shanan was born in 1986 and grew up in Julis, Israel. As a kid, she attended private art lessons due to the lack of art courses in her elementary school curriculum. [2] She studied visual arts at the Oranim Academic College from 2007 to 2010. Afterwards, she studied in the studio of traditionalist Israeli artist Elie Shamir for ...
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 ...