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Druze

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Druze دروز

Druze Star

Total population

750,000 to 2,000,000

Founder

Regions with significant populations

Flag of Syria Syria 865,000[citation needed]

Flag of Lebanon Lebanon 280,000[1] to 350,000[2]

Flag of Israel Israel 118,000[3] *

Flag of Jordan Jordan 20,000[4]

Outside the Middle East 100,000

In the Flag of the United States United States 20,000[5]

Religions

Unitarian Druze

Scriptures

Rasa’il al-hikmah (Epistles of Wisdom), Qur’an

Languages

Arabic.

English.

Hebrew (Only In Israel).

French (Only In Lebanon and Syria).

*Includes Druze in the Golan Heights

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Ismaili

Shi’a Islam

Branches

Nizari · Mustaali · Druze

Concepts

The Qur’an · The Ginans

Reincarnation · Panentheism

Imam · Pir · Da’i al-Mutlaq

Aql · Numerology · Taqiyya

Zahir · Batin

Seven Pillars

Guardianship · Prayer · Charity

Fasting · Pilgrimage · Struggle

Purity · Profession of Faith

History

Fatimid Empire

Hamza ibn Ali · ad-Darazi

Hassan-i-Sabbah · Hashashin

Dawoodi · Sulaimani · Alavi

Hafizi · Taiyabi · Ainsarii

Seveners · Qarmatians

Sadardin · Satpanth

Baghdad Manifesto

Early Imams

Ali · Hasan · Husayn

al-Sajjad · al-Baqir · al-Sadiq

Ismail · Muhammad

Ahmad · at-Taqi · az-Zaki

al-Mahdi · al-Qa’im · al-Mansur

al-Muizz · al-Aziz · al-Hakim

az-Zahir · al-Mustansir · Nizar

al-Musta’li · al-Amir · al-Qasim

Contemporary Leaders

Mohammed Burhanuddin

Aga Khan IV

al-Fakhri Abdullah

Taiyeb Ziyauddin Saheb

Mowafak Tarif

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The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; Hebrew: דרוזים‎, Druzim; also transliterated Druz or Druse) are a religious community found primarily in Lebanon, Israel and Syria whose traditional religion is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, but is unique in its incorporation of Gnostic, neo-Platonic and other philosophies. Because of such incorporation, many Islamic scholars label the Druze as a non-Muslim sect,even though the Druze are officially classified as Muslims[6].

Theologically, Druze consider themselves “an Islamic Unist, reformatory sect”[7][8].The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid “People of Monotheism or Unitarianism” or al-Muwahhidūn “Unitarians, Monotheists”. The origin of the name Druze is traced to Nashtakin ad-Darazi, one of the first preachers of the religion, though the primary leader of the faith was the Persian mystic Hamza Bin Ali.

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