Origins of the Druze People and Religion: Table of Contents

Origins of the Druze People and Religion, by Philip K. Hitti, [1924], at sacred-texts.com

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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

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Seven Major Prophets—Seven a Sacred Number—Excellence of Druze System—Adam—Jesus

The Bāṭiniyyah—The Muḥammadan Law Abrogated—The Mystic Element—Sheikhs

Method of Operation—Earlier Moslem Sects Believing in Transmigration—Relation to China

Animism and Saint Worship—Charges of Licentious Practices—Ḥamzites versus Darazites—Family Organization—Summary and Conclusion

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