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Author : Philip Khuri Hitti
Release : 1928
Genre : Druzes
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Book Synopsis The Origins of the Druze People and Religion by : Philip Khuri Hitti
Download or read book The Origins of the Druze People and Religion written by Philip Khuri Hitti. This book was released on 1928. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samy S. Swayd
Release : 2009
Genre : Druzes
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Book Synopsis The A to Z of the Druzes by : Samy S. Swayd
Download or read book The A to Z of the Druzes written by Samy S. Swayd. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Druzes are one of the smallest, least studied, and most esoteric religious communities in the Middle East. This is because the Druze teachings remain inaccessible not only to outsiders but also to uninitiated members within the Druze community itself. Furthermore, proselytizing--inducing someone to convert to one's own religious faith--has been prohibited since the establishment of the sect in the 11th century. In order to resist assimilation by the various empires and colonial powers that sought to dominate them--the Byzantines, various Arab dynasties, the Mamluks and Ottomans, the British and French, in addition to the nations that govern them--the Druzes disguise and conceal their beliefs. Therefore, not much is known by outsiders about the Druzes. This dictionary provides nearly 1,000 concise and informative cross-referenced A to Z entries on religious, political, and cultural themes, as well as entries on a number of major families and individuals (artists, writers, diplomats, and leaders) who have contributed to the Druze communities. This volume is also complemented with a chronology, an introductory essay, and a bibliography.
Author : Nejla M. Abu Izzeddin
Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Druzes by : Nejla M. Abu Izzeddin
Download or read book The Druzes written by Nejla M. Abu Izzeddin. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was first published in 1984, it was the first extensive study of the Druzes to appear for many years. A small community native only in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, the Druzes have exercised an influence around them greater than their numerical strength. Living for the most part in mountainous territories they have maintained an independent existence for a thousand years. This book places the beliefs of the Druzes in the context of the history of Sh?'ism in its Ism?'?l? form, from which their faith developed. It also describes the role of the Druze community in the history of Lebanon and Syria. In the preparation of this book, the author, a Druze herself, has made use not only of the readily available Arabic and European sources but also of documents and manuscripts that are less easily accessible.
Author : Kais M. Firro
Release : 2021-10-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Druzes in the Jewish State by : Kais M. Firro
Download or read book The Druzes in the Jewish State written by Kais M. Firro. This book was released on 2021-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the war of 1948 Palestine's Druzes became part of the state of Israel. Overwhelmingly rural, they sought to safeguard their community's age-old ethnic independence by holding on to their traditional ethno-religious particularism. Ethnicity and ethnic issues, however, were ready tools for the Zionists in the pursuit of their policy aims vis-à-vis the state's Arab population. Central among these was the cooptation of part of the Druze elite in an obvious effort to alienate the Druzes from the other Arabs - creating "good" Arabs and "bad" Arabs served the Jewish state as a foil for its ongoing policy of dispossession and control. The author painstakingly documents the political, social and economic factors that ensured the "success" of these Zionist policies, but concludes that the fissured identity of Israel's Druzes today bespeaks a feeling of musiba, tragedy, within the community itself.
Author : Philip Khuri Hitti
Release : 1928
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Origins of the Druze People and Religion by : Philip Khuri Hitti
Download or read book The Origins of the Druze People and Religion written by Philip Khuri Hitti. This book was released on 1928. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to solve the riddle of the unique and secret sect of the Druzes. From who they are, to why and where they are from their beginnings to their religious beliefs.
