| Compulsory military service is applied to the Druze and Circassian communities at their own request. |
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| In the seventeenth century, the Druze prince, Fakhreddine, used Beaufort as a base in his struggle against the Ottoman Turks. |
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| The Druze had been fighting the ruling Ottoman Turks for two hundred years. |
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| She lunched in the tents of both the Druze and their sworn enemies, the Beni Sakhr, and met with the sheiks of various Bedouin tribes. |
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| In the 1600s and 1700s, the Druze were the most powerful community on the Levantine coast. |
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| The Druze are known for their generosity and are guided by a sense of chivalry and honor. |
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| The Druze seem like an odd lot too, but hey, I think most religions are a bit weird. |
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| But what about those Arabs who serve in the IDF, specifically, the Druze who are conscripted and the Bedouin who volunteer? |
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| The problem of lack of zoning by the State for construction in the Druze villages is seething under the surface. |
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| Meanwhile, the Druze and the Circassian Muslims serve in the armed forces. |
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| The legal inheritance system of the Hanafite school applies to the Druze only in the case of intestacy or an invalid will. |
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| The courts of the Druze denomination, known as confessional courts, consist of courts of first instance and a higher court of appeal. |
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| A politician close to Druze leader Walid Jumblat was stabbed to death after attending the commemoration. |
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| A Druze has the right to revoke or amend his will, the testator's final wish being the crucial issue in the making of a will. |
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| The Mamluks retreated, and were harassed by Maronite and Druze bowmen who wanted independence from the Mamluks. |
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| The plan for development of the Druze-Circassian sector is intended to engage with specific topics considered capable of bringing a real and positive change to the quality of life of Druze and Circassian citizens. |
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| Preparation of the plan took several months and involved participation from the relevant Government Ministries and the heads of the Druze and Circassian municipalities. |
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| Examples might include the Amish, Druze, Mormons, Sikhs, Yazidi and Zoroastrians. |
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| Certain social benefits require national identity cards, which record religion, except for unrecognised religions such as Druze and Baha'i and for atheists, who must choose a recognised religion for identification purposes. |
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| Walid Jumblatt, a Druze leader and former Syrian stalwart, has joined the chorus of Maronite church leaders demanding the removal of Syria's 35,000 troops. |
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| Many people had mistakenly taken him for a Druze. |
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| The ceremony to honor the four was held in the village of Arna, a predominantly Druze Syrian area of Mount Hermon. |
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| Two of the kidnapped, Khaled Rizq and Raef Nasr, are Druze from Swaida and the third, Bassel Trad, is Sunni, from the Der town of Ezr. |
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| What sparked off the protests to begin with was a water dispute in Daraa, the so-called epicentre of the peaceful Syria revolution, with Alawis and Druze doing the protesting. |
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| These have been noted in a minimal apparatus criticus which is more than adequate for a canonical text that has been meticulously copied by the Druze uqqal. |
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| It also gave rise to the Qarmatian movement and the Druze faith. |
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