{"collection":"asia","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/asia/odpr/odpr04.htm","path":"asia/odpr/odpr04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/asia/odpr/odpr04.htm","text":"Origins of the Druze People and Religion, by Philip K. Hitti, [1924]\n| | Page | \n| Two Facsimile Pages from Druze Manuscripts | | \n| Foreword (by Editor of the Studies) | III | \n| Preface (by Author) | V | \n| CHAPTER I | | \n| A UNIQUE AND SECRET SECT | | \n| Two Historical Fossils\u2014Relation to World Events\u2014Minor Episodes\u2014Other Secret Sects\u2014Special Interest of this Study | 1-4 | \n| CHAPTER II | | \n| SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT | | \n| Feudal Organization\u2014Part Played during the Crusades\u2014The Druze Power at its Height\u2014Banu-Shih\u0101b, the Last Feudal Chiefs\u2014Druzes and Christians Grouped in Political Rather than Religious Parties\u2014The Civil War of 1860 | 5-9 | \n| CHAPTER III | | \n| RACIAL ORIGINS | | \n| Number and Distribution\u2014Religious and Racial Boundaries Coterminous\u2014Silence of Historians\u2014Travelers\u2019 and Scholars\u2019 Accounts\u2014Criticism of the Arabian Theory\u2014Diverse Hypotheses\u2014Supposed Relationship with the French and British and with Freemasonry\u2014Other Theories | 10-17 | \n| CHAPTER IV | | \n| THE PERSIAN ORIGIN OF THE DRUZES | | \n| The Persian Nucleus at W\u0101di-al-Taym\u2014The Founders of Druzism All Persian\u2014The Testimony of Religious Vocabulary\u2014Names of Feudal Families\u2014Persian Tribes Transplanted into Syria | 18-23 | \n| CHAPTER V | | \n| DRUZE THEOLOGY AND ITS SOURCES | | \n| I. THE PROBLEM WITH ITS DIFFICULTIES | | \n| Various Hypotheses\u2014Period of Concealment\u2014Manuscripts\u2014The Historical Setting | 24-26 | \n| II. THE \u1e24\u0100KIM-GOD | | \n| Whimsical Character of al-\u1e24\u0101kim\u2014His Deification\u2014Al-\u1e24ak\u012bm as the Messiah\u2014A Series of Divine Incarnations\u2014The Disappearance and Triumphal Return of al-\u1e24\u0101kim\u2014Indo-Iranian Influences\u2014Unitarians | 16-34 | \n| III. FIVE DIVINE MINISTERS AND THREE INFERIOR ONES | | \n| The Process of Emanation\u2014The Neo-Platonic Source\u2014Inferior Ministers | 34-37 | \n| p. VIII | | \n| | Page | \n| IV. THE PROPHETIC SUCCESSION | | \n| Seven Major Prophets\u2014Seven a Sacred Number\u2014Excellence of Druze System\u2014Adam\u2014Jesus | 37-39 | \n| V. THE INNER MEANING | | \n| The B\u0101\u1e6diniyyah\u2014The Mu\u1e25ammadan Law Abrogated\u2014The Mystic Element\u2014Sheikhs | 40-43 | \n| CHAPTER VI | | \n| DOGMAS AND PRECEPTS | | \n| I. TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS | | \n| Method of Operation\u2014Earlier Moslem Sects Believing in Transmigration\u2014Relation to China | 44-47 | \n| II. PREDESTINATION AND DISSIMULATION | | \n| Sh\u012b\u2018ite Contribution | 47-48 | \n| III. THE CULT OF THE CALF | | \n| The Fact\u2014Its Interpretation | 49 | \n| IV. SEVEN PRECEPTS OF \u1e24AMZAH | | \n| Eight Dogmas\u2014\u1e24amzah's Precepts\u2014Sources and Operation | 50-51 | \n| CHAPTER VII | | \n| FOLKLORE | | \n| Animism and Saint Worship\u2014Charges of Licentious Practices\u2014\u1e24amzites versus Darazites\u2014Family Organization\u2014Summary and Conclusion | 52-54 | \n| APPENDICES | | \n| CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM THE DRUZE SACRED WRITINGS | | \n| APPENDIX A\u2014COVENANT OF INDUCTION INTO THE RELIGION OF THE RULER OF THE AGE | 57 | \n| APPENDIX B\u2014AL-\u1e24AKIM'S ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE USE OF WINE | 59 | \n| APPENDIX C\u2014EXCERPT FROM THE CHARTER FOUND POSTED ON THE WALLS OF THE MOSQUES ON THE OCCASION OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OUR LORD AL-IMAM AL-\u1e24AKIM | 61 | \n| APPENDIX D\u2014EXCERPT FROM THE EPISTLE ENTITLED AL-QUS\u1e6cAN\u1e6c\u012aNIYYAH ADDRESSED BY BAH\u0100\u2019-AL-D\u012aN TO THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE | 64 | \n| APPENDIX E\u2014EXCERPT FROM BAH\u0100\u2019-AL-D\u012aN'S EPISTLE ENTITLED CHRISTIANITY | 68 | \n| APPENDIX F\u2014EXHORTATIONS AND PRAYERS BY AL-SAYYID \u2018ABDULL\u0100H AL -TAN\u016aKHI | 71 | \n| Index | 75 | \n| Map | 81 |","title":"Origins of the Druze People and Religion: Table of Contents","type":"page"}