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History of the Druzes Book

History of the Druzes
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  • History of the Druzes
  • Written by author K.M. Firro
  • Published by Brill, 1992/08/01
  • A History of the Druzes begins with an introduction to the early history of the Druzes, focusing on the religious, political, and social features that fostered the Druze community as a religious minority with its own particular characteristics, fac
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Preface
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Pt. 1 Introduction 1
Ch. 1 Origins and Early History 3
The Origins of the Druze Faith 3
The Druze Dawa 8
Racial Origins 17
Taqiyya 20
Ethics 23
Early History 25
Pt. 2 From Zenith to Decline 29
Ch. 1 To Hawran 31
The Beginning of the Migration to Hawran 31
From Palestine to Hawran 42
From Jabal al-Ala to Hawran 47
From Mt. Lebanon and Wadi at-Taym to Hawran 49
Ch. 2 The Roots of the Maronite-Druze Conflict 54
From Feudal to Sectarian Conflict 54
The Druzes under Ibrahim Pasha 61
The Druze Revolt, 1837-1838 66
Ch. 3 The Maronite-Druze Conflict, 1841-1845 79
Civil Strife and the Fall of the Shihabis 79
The Druze Revolt against the Ottomans, 1842 92
Ottomans, French, and British, and a New Political System 95
Ch. 4 The Road to the Civil War of 1860 103
The Regulations of Shakib Afandi 103
Druze Unity and Factionalism 108
Druze-Maronite Rivalry in a Fragile Political System 114
The Final Stage of Decline 119
Pt. 3 Jabal Hawran Becomes Jabal ad-Duruz 127
Ch. 1 The Hawran Refuge 129
After the French Intervention 129
Jabal ad-Duruz and the Ottoman Reforms 138
Waiting for Settlement 149
Ch. 2 Centripetal Immigration 154
Pull or Push? 154
From Peripheral Region to Center 164
Newcomers in a New Land 170
Ch. 3 The Development of the Druze Mashyakha in the Ottoman Context 178
The Leading Families 178
Atrashs - From al-Qraya to as-Suwayda 185
The Druze Mashyakha System and the Ottoman Reforms 195
Ch. 4 Independent Spirit vs. Ottomanization 206
A Dualist Structure 206
Toward a Peasant Revolt (Ammiyya) 211
The Ammiyya of 1899-1890 220
The Desperate Strife 228
Jabal ad-Duruz at the End of the Ottoman Period 237
Pt. 4 Between Communal Particularism and Arab Nationalism 245
Ch. 1 A Particularist Minority Facing the French Mandate 247
The Druze and the Arab Revolt, 1916-1919 247
French Recognition of the Druze Mashyakha 257
An Irreconcilable Contradiction: Mashyakha vs. Mandate 263
The Druze Revolt: From Communal to National Uprising 271
Ch. 2 Between Nationalism and Separatism 288
From Druze Insurgency to the Great Syrian Revolt 288
A New Form of Separatism 298
After the Franco-Syrian Treaty of 1936 305
Ch. 3 Druze Particularism in the Shadow of the Palestinian-Zionist Conflict 314
Facing the Palestinian-Zionist Conflict 314
Zionist Encouragement of Druze Particularism 323
The Druzes and the 1936-1939 Uprising 327
The Zionist Transfer Plan 337
Pt. 5 Conclusion - The Present in Historical Perspective 351
Bibliography 365
Index 373


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