A faith born in eleventh-century Cairo that guards an esoteric teaching of God's unity, reincarnation, and the Epistles of Wisdom, and accepts no converts.
The Druze faith began in Cairo in the years after 1017, when teachers proclaimed the divine unity in a new key around the caliph al-Hakim. Persecution drove its followers to the mountains of Lebanon, Syria, and Galilee, where they became a closed community: the faith accepts no converts, keeps its scriptures, the Epistles of Wisdom, among an initiated few, and teaches the reincarnation of the soul. The Druze are famed in their homelands for loyalty to the land they live in.
Sources
Primary
- The Epistles of Wisdom (Rasa'il al-Hikma).
Secondary
- Sami Nasib Makarem, The Druze Faith (1974).
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