This book deals with the history of the Druze community using an interdisciplinary approach to describe, analyze, and explain historical events and processes.

Following the war of 1948 Palestine's Druzes became part of the state of Israel. Overwhelmingly rural, they sought to safeguard their community's age-old ethnic

When this book was first published in 1984, it was the first extensive study of the Druzes to appear for many years. A small community native only in Lebanon, S

This book deals with the history of the Druze community using an interdisciplinary approach to describe, analyze, and explain historical events and processes.