Kirjahaku

This is the first volume of the Druze Trilogy, which sets the background, the influencing factors, and the development of Muslim philosophy. The Arab tribes, and their migrations, are reviewed, followed by the advent of Islam. The spread of Islam brought it into contact with an assortment of cultures and beliefs. This contact ignited the fire of philosophy in Islam, which glowed for many centuries. The Shi'a Muslims, who branched into many schools of thought, carried the torch of philosophy and developed their own falsafa and kalam. The study of philosophy became an essential part for the understanding and practice of religion. The book explores the key influencing factor in detail, which is the Greek philosophy, from both Athens and Alexandria. The works and beliefs of the major ancient philosophers are discussed, followed by that of the Muslim ones. Thus, this work is the stepping stone to the understanding of the Druze faith.

Theology, the second book in the Druze Trilogy, examines the Fatimi rule and the period during which the Druze Call was initiated. The Call is discussed in detail, including background, proclaimers and the periods of suspension. This followed by a roundup of the Epistles of Wisdom, the Druze sacred books. The topics of theosophy and spirituality are investigated with some expansion on esotericism, Hermeticism, mysticism, Gnosticism, Ismailism, and Sufism. The book concludes with a large section on Tawheed (Unitarianism), the essence of the Druze faith. That section includes the concepts and principles of Tawheed, God, creation, reincarnation, and the doctrines.

This book, Genealogy, discusses three main issue, genetics, Druze genetic investigations, and the origin and history of the Druze families. The section on genetics discusses and explains the cells, genes, inheritance, genetic disorders and the purpose of genetic testing. The Druze genetic investigations include national and international research which were carried out in Lebanon, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. The Druze origin is discussed in more details in the third part of the book and includes the hypotheses of their ethnic origins, Arab tribes, the Druze population, and the families. The Druze families, sixty-six of them, are investigated with regards to their origins, history and current residency.