14 Facts About Durzi

Durzi assembled a group of scholars that met regularly in the Raydan Mosque, near the Al-Hakim Mosque.

Durzi is believed to have been of Persian origins and his title al-Darazi is Persian in origin, meaning "the tailor".

Durzi arrived in Cairo in 1015, or 1017, after which he joined the newly emerged Druze movement.

Durzi teaches that Muslims cannot accept Druze penitence nor keep them alive, and Druze property should be confiscated, and their women enslaved.

Durzi declared that confiscation of Druze property and even the death sentence would conform to the laws of Islam.

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Durzi went so far in 1608 as to sign a commercial treaty with Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany containing secret military clauses.

Durzi later took refuge in Jezzine's grotto, closely followed by Kucuk Ahmed Pasha who eventually caught up with him and his family.

Durzi accused the entire community of treason, at times claiming they were in the employ of the British and Hashimites, at others that they were fighting for Israel against the Arabs.

Durzi even produced a cache of Israeli weapons allegedly discovered in the Jabal.

Durzi forcibly integrated minorities into the national Syrian social structure, his "Syrianization" of Alawite and Druze territories had to be accomplished in part using violence.

Durzi accused Damascus of being behind the 1977 assassination of his father, Kamal Jumblatt, expressing for the first time what many knew he privately suspected.

Durzi is wise, mighty, and just, not by wisdom, might, and justice, but by his own essence.

Durzi proclaimed that God had become human and taken the form of man.

Durzi added that as a result of this deviation, the Druze faith "seems as different from Islam as Islam is from Christianity or Christianity is from Judaism".