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As noted by the Harvard Divinity School, Druze adherents do not consider themselves Muslim, even though they are Arabs. The Druze consider Jesus and Mohammed to be prophets.
(RNS) — The victims of the latest bloodiest day in the Israel-Hamas war were neither Jews nor Palestinians, but Druze, a small religious sect native to the Levant.
Druze tradition also honors several “mentors” and “prophets,” including Jethro of Midian (Moses’ father-in-law), Moses, Jesus, John the Baptist and the Prophet Muhammad. Several philosophers and other ...
(RNS) — For many Druze, an Arabic-speaking minority in Israel, the bill was seen as an insult and ignorant of the role the Druze have played in Israel’s military history.
Israeli Druze are watching their government's pressure campaign in Syria. Israel says recent airstrikes inside Syria are to protect the Druze religious minority there from sectarian violence.
A survey of resources on the heterodox Shiite sect of Islam that calls itself “Unitarian” and believes in reincarnation.
Dozens of members of Israel's Druze community protested at the Kafr Yasif junction in the Western Galilee, near Acre, on Wednesday, in response to the sectarian clashes that took place over the ...
Shadi Khaloul, a Christian Israeli, said he believes the ongoing war isn't just between Jews and Hamas, but between those who defend the value of light against darkness.
The remaining minorities are less than 10 percent of the population: The Christians include the Assyrians, who still speak the ancient Aramaic language of Jesus; there are the Druze, who borrow ...