[PDF] A History Of The Druzes eBook

Author : Kais Firro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
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Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004094376

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This book deals with the history of the Druze community using an interdisciplinary approach to describe, analyze, and explain historical events and processes.

Author : Nejla M. Abu Izzeddin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004097056

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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
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004491910

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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 : Kais M Firro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004661786

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This book deals with the history of the Druze community using an interdisciplinary approach to describe, analyze, and explain historical events and processes.

Author : Philip Khuri Hitti
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1928
Category : History
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Huri Islamoglu - Inan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004660836

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State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire studies the dynamics of Ottoman peasant economy in the sixteenth century. First, it shows that contrary to the conventional wisdom about the 'stationariness'of the Asian agrarian economies, Ottoman peasant economy witnessed substantial growth in response to population increase, urban commercial expansion and to increased taxation demands. Second, the book argues that economic development did not take place independently of political structures, of the state. This meant that in the light of the fiscal and legitimation concerns of the Ottoman state and contrary to the assumptions of the models of economic development, changes in population and in commercial demand did not result in the disruption of the integrity of the small peasant holding as the primary unit of production. The book develops these arguments in the context of a detailed empirical study of the economic trends, of the state rules or institutions that embodied the relations of revenue extraction, and of exchange in Ottoman Anatolia.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004435549

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The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections—on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist, and fringe Islamic movements—the authors provide historical overviews, analyses, and in-depth studies of large and small Islamic and related groups from all around the world. The contents of this volume will be of interest to both newcomers to the study of Islam and established scholars of religion who wish to engage with the dynamic label of Islam and the many impactful movements of the Islamic world.