Origins of the Druze People and Religion: Table of Contents
Origins of the Druze People and Religion, by Philip K. Hitti, [1924]
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| Two Facsimile Pages from Druze Manuscripts | |
| Foreword (by Editor of the Studies) | III |
| Preface (by Author) | V |
| CHAPTER I | |
| A UNIQUE AND SECRET SECT | |
| Two Historical Fossils—Relation to World Events—Minor Episodes—Other Secret Sects—Special Interest of this Study | 1-4 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT | |
| Feudal Organization—Part Played during the Crusades—The Druze Power at its Height—Banu-Shihāb, the Last Feudal Chiefs—Druzes and Christians Grouped in Political Rather than Religious Parties—The Civil War of 1860 | 5-9 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| RACIAL ORIGINS | |
| Number and Distribution—Religious and Racial Boundaries Coterminous—Silence of Historians—Travelers’ and Scholars’ Accounts—Criticism of the Arabian Theory—Diverse Hypotheses—Supposed Relationship with the French and British and with Freemasonry—Other Theories | 10-17 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| THE PERSIAN ORIGIN OF THE DRUZES | |
| The Persian Nucleus at Wādi-al-Taym—The Founders of Druzism All Persian—The Testimony of Religious Vocabulary—Names of Feudal Families—Persian Tribes Transplanted into Syria | 18-23 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| DRUZE THEOLOGY AND ITS SOURCES | |
| I. THE PROBLEM WITH ITS DIFFICULTIES | |
| Various Hypotheses—Period of Concealment—Manuscripts—The Historical Setting | 24-26 |
| II. THE ḤĀKIM-GOD | |
| Whimsical Character of al-Ḥākim—His Deification—Al-Ḥakīm as the Messiah—A Series of Divine Incarnations—The Disappearance and Triumphal Return of al-Ḥākim—Indo-Iranian Influences—Unitarians | 16-34 |
| III. FIVE DIVINE MINISTERS AND THREE INFERIOR ONES | |
| The Process of Emanation—The Neo-Platonic Source—Inferior Ministers | 34-37 |
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| IV. THE PROPHETIC SUCCESSION | |
| Seven Major Prophets—Seven a Sacred Number—Excellence of Druze System—Adam—Jesus | 37-39 |
| V. THE INNER MEANING | |
| The Bāṭiniyyah—The Muḥammadan Law Abrogated—The Mystic Element—Sheikhs | 40-43 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| DOGMAS AND PRECEPTS | |
| I. TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS | |
| Method of Operation—Earlier Moslem Sects Believing in Transmigration—Relation to China | 44-47 |
| II. PREDESTINATION AND DISSIMULATION | |
| Shī‘ite Contribution | 47-48 |
| III. THE CULT OF THE CALF | |
| The Fact—Its Interpretation | 49 |
| IV. SEVEN PRECEPTS OF ḤAMZAH | |
| Eight Dogmas—Ḥamzah's Precepts—Sources and Operation | 50-51 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| FOLKLORE | |
| Animism and Saint Worship—Charges of Licentious Practices—Ḥamzites versus Darazites—Family Organization—Summary and Conclusion | 52-54 |
| APPENDICES | |
| CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM THE DRUZE SACRED WRITINGS | |
| APPENDIX A—COVENANT OF INDUCTION INTO THE RELIGION OF THE RULER OF THE AGE | 57 |
| APPENDIX B—AL-ḤAKIM'S ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE USE OF WINE | 59 |
| APPENDIX C—EXCERPT FROM THE CHARTER FOUND POSTED ON THE WALLS OF THE MOSQUES ON THE OCCASION OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OUR LORD AL-IMAM AL-ḤAKIM | 61 |
| APPENDIX D—EXCERPT FROM THE EPISTLE ENTITLED AL-QUSṬANṬĪNIYYAH ADDRESSED BY BAHĀ’-AL-DĪN TO THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE | 64 |
| APPENDIX E—EXCERPT FROM BAHĀ’-AL-DĪN'S EPISTLE ENTITLED CHRISTIANITY | 68 |
| APPENDIX F—EXHORTATIONS AND PRAYERS BY AL-SAYYID ‘ABDULLĀH AL -TANŪKHI | 71 |
| Index | 75 |
| Map | 81 |