The Origina Of The Druze People And Religion With Extracts From Their Sacred Writings
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The Origina Of The Druze People And Religion With Extracts From Their Sacred Writings
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Author : Philip Khuri Hitti
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1966-01-01
The Origina Of The Druze People And Religion With Extracts From Their Sacred Writings written by Philip Khuri Hitti and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-01-01 with History categories.
The Druzes of Syria and the Samaritans of Palestine are two unique communities not to be found elsewhere in the whole world. Like social fossils in an alien environment, these two peoples have survived for hundreds of years in that land rightly described as a "Babel of tongues" and a "museum of nationalities." The Samaritans are the remnants of the tribes from Assyria and Persia who were transplanted by Sargon some seven hundred years before Christ to take the place of the "ten tribes" who were carried into captivity. 1 a They figured in the life of Christ as is illustrated by the case of the "Samaritan woman" and the story of the "good Samaritan." Today they are represented by about one hundred and eighty persons who intermarry among themselves and are becoming rapidly extinct. Their habitat is modern Nāblus (biblical Shechem), and their religion is ancient Judaism mixed with pagan survivals. The Druzes have no such clear record to show regarding their origin as a people and as a sect. Their ethnographical origins, no less than their ritual practices and religious beliefs, are shrouded in mystery. Appearing for the first time on the pages of history at Wādi-al-Taym near Mt. Hermon in anti-Lebanon, as professors of the divinity of the sixth Fāṭimite Caliph in Cairo (996-1020 A.D.), the Druzes have lived their semi-independent lives secluded in their mountain fastnesses of Lebanon, unmindful of the progress of the world around them, and almost entirely forgotten by the outside world. Relation to World Events:—The few occasions throughout their history in which the Druzes attracted international attention were first at the time of the Crusades, when they were entrusted by the Moslems with the military task of guarding the maritime plain against the Franks. They then fought under the banner of Islam and took part in the attacks against the garrisons of Belfort (Qal‘at al-Shaqīf) and of Montfort (Qal‘at Qurayn) in Galilee. Secondly, in the early seventeenth century when their great leader, Fakhr-al-Dīn II (1585-1635), under whom the Druze power reached its zenith, appeared as a refugee from the Sultan of Turkey in the court of the Medicis at Florence. Thirdly, when as a result of their civil wars in 1860 with their Christian neighbors to the north—the Maronites—the French landed a contingent of troops to quell the disturbance which resulted in giving the Lebanon a complete autonomy recognized by the great Powers of Europe. And fourthly, in connection with the recent armed uprising against the French mandate in Syria.
The Origins Of The Druze People And Religion
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Author : Philip Khuri Hitti
language : en
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Release Date : 1966
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Origins Of The Druze People And Religion
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Author : Philip K. Hitti
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-04-06
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Two Historical Fossils:--The Druzes of Syria and the Samaritans of Palestine are two unique communities not to be found elsewhere in the whole world. Like social fossils in an alien environment, these two peoples have survived for hundreds of years in that land rightly described as a "Babel of tongues" and a "museum of nationalities."
The Origins Of The Druze People And Religion
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Author : Philip Khuri Hitti
language : en
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Release Date : 2007
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The Origins Of The Druze People And Religion
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The Origins Of The Druze People
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Author : Philip Khuri Hitti
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Release Date : 1966
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The Origins Of The Druze People And Religion
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Author : Philip Khuri Hitti
language : en
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Release Date : 1923
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Author : Philip K. Hitti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-18
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The Origens Of The Druze People And Religion
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Author : Philip K. Hitti
language : en
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Release Date : 1966
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The Druze Faith
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Author : Sāmī Nasīb Makārim
language : en
Publisher: Academic Resources Corp
Release Date : 1974
The Druze Faith written by Sāmī Nasīb Makārim and has been published by Academic Resources Corp this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Religion categories.
"A very readable & important work on the history & religion of the Druze community."-Majid Khadduri in The Middle East Journal. This history-making book, published with the approval of the Shaykh al-Akl, spiritual leader of the world's Druze community of one million for the first time lifts the official veil of secrecy surrounding this esoteric branch of Isma'ili Shi'ite Islam. Professor Makarim, himself a Druze, used medieval manuscript sources still under the seal of secrecy, to trace the history, beliefs, & customs of this faith from its origins early in Islam & its founding in the 11th century A.D. under the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt. The book contains translations of numerous quotations from the sacred Druze scriptures, the Six Books of Wisdom, set forth in 111 Epistles by the imam Hamza ibn 'Ali & his disciples; commentaries by leading Druze scholars over the centuries, & several appendixes, including a list of Shi'ite imams & stations, Druze prayers, a description of the Druze domestic law, & important dates in the history of the Druzes.