This religious group warred with the Ottoman Turks and the Christian Maronites, preparing the way for French control of the eastern Mediterranean countries known as the Levant, but they gave up their autonomy in 1944, shortly after their 1925-27 occupation of Damascus.
This religious group warred with the Ottoman Turks and the Christian Maronites, preparing the way for French control of the eastern Mediterranean countries known as the Levant, but they gave up their autonomy in 1944, shortly after their 1925-27 occupation of Damascus. A unitarian faith combining Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Sufist ideas, they number about 1 million worldwide, and believe in the divinity of Hakim, the sixth caliph of the Fatimid dynasty. Probably taking their name from their first apostle, Ismail Darazi, FTP, what is this religious community found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan?
This religious group warred with the Ottoman Turks and the Christian Maronites, preparing the way for French control of the eastern Mediterranean countries known as the Levant, but they gave up their autonomy in 1944, shortly after their 1925-27 occupation of Damascus.
the Druze or Druse