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The Lebanese Druze (Arabic: دروز لبنان, romanized: durūz lubnān) are an ethnoreligious group constituting about 5.2 percent 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 ...
c. 800,000 - 2,000,0000 [72] (referred to as al-Muwaḥḥidūn al-Druze) The story of the creation of the Druze faith in the days between 1017 and 1018 is dominated by three men and their struggle for influence. Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad was an Ismaili mystic and scholar from Khorasan, who arrived in Fatimid Egypt in 1014 or 1016 [73] and began ...
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Lebanon and the intellectual formulation of their narrative. In 1972, the government of Lebanon decided to build two memorial monuments in honour of the Druze ruler Emir Fakhr al-DIn al-MacnI II, Lebanon's greatest national hero. One was in the Druze town of Bacqlln, the other - an identical
To tell the stories of the prominent Arslan family, and of their links to other Arabian royal families, a museum has opened in Aley, Mount Lebanon. The story of the Druze family of Arslan, descendants of the third-century Lakhmids kings in southern Iraq, begins with the survival of an infant after a massacre of the tribe’s men by the Crusaders.
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Nov 16, 2016 · The Druze are an aggregate of communities in the Levant and Near East living almost exclusively in the mountains of Syria, Lebanon and Israel whose ~1000 year old religion formally opposes mixed ...
Feb 7, 2008 · The Druze Heritage: Part I. Summary The Druze are a thousand-year-old religious community of the Middle East, whose members today live primarily in Lebanon, Syria and Israel, while others have emigrated to the United States, Europe and Africa.
