10 Facts About Lebanese Druze

The Druze faith is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion, and an ethnoreligious esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as unitarians.

The Lebanese Druze, who refer to themselves as al-Muwahhideen, or "believers in one God, " are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut.

The Maronite Catholic and the Lebanese Druze founded modern Lebanon in the early eighteenth century, through the ruling and social system known as the "Maronite-Lebanese Druze dualism" in Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate.

The Lebanese Druze beliefs incorporate elements of Ismailism, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and other philosophies.

The Lebanese Druze have frequently experienced persecution by different Muslim regimes such as the Shia Fatimid Caliphate, Sunni Ottoman Empire, and Egypt Eyalet.

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The persecution of the Lebanese Druze included massacres, demolishing Lebanese Druze prayer houses and holy places and forced conversion to Islam.

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

Lebanese Christians and Druze became a genetic isolate in the predominantly Islamic world.

Lebanese Druze are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut.

The Lebanese Druze make up more than half of the population of the Aley District, and they constitute about a third of the residents of the Rachaya District, and they constitute about the quarter of residents of the Chouf District and the Matn District.