The Druze dogma was developed in the 5th / 11th century in Cairo during the reign of the sixth Fatimid caliph al-廎勾kim.
The founders of this dogma, notably 廎兀mza, were Ismaili missionaries who, in their writings known as硃梭-廎夕域鳥硃or theRas尨il 硃梭-廎夕域鳥硃, established a new Ismaili Shi’i doctrine, which parted from the mainstream Fatimid doctrine.
Accused of extremism and exaggeration (ghuluww), theDruzemovement was then banned from Cairo under thecaliphateof al-廕hir, so it only developed in the Syrian mountains. Rural clan leaders in Syria had indeed converted to Druzism during the餃硃尪滄硃Lit. ‘summons’, ‘mission’ or invitation to Islam. Amongst Shi’i Muslims, it was the invitation to adopt the cause of the Imamat. It also refers more specifically to the hierarchy of…(1017-1043) and continued to pass on their doctrine secretly until the 9th / 15th century. In this talk, Dr Halawi shows how Druzism was in line with Ismaili doctrine at that time, while developing a substantive law influenced by SunnifiqhThe science of Islamic jurisprudence.and customary law.
