today. Among the leading Druze families are the
Jumblats of Lebanon, the Atrashes of Syria, and
the Tarifs of Galilee in Israel.
See also ismaili shiism.
Further reading: Robert Brenton Betts, The Druze (New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988); Talal Fandi
and Ziyad Abi-Shakra, eds., The Druze Heritage: An
Annotated Bibliography (Amman: Royal Institute for
Inter-Faith Studies; London: Druze Heritage Founda-
tion, 2001); Marshall G. S. Hodgson, “Al-Darazi and
Hamza in the Origin of the Druze Religion.” Journal of
the American Oriental Society 82 (1962): 5–20.dua See prayer.
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