4559 x 6079 px | 38,6 x 51,5 cm | 15,2 x 20,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
13 febbraio 2010
Ubicazione:
Daliyat al Karmel Israel
Altre informazioni:
Daliyat al-Karmel is a Druze local council in the North District of Israel, located around 20km southeast of Haifa.The town is famous for its colorful market, which is alive with visitors all week long and especially on Saturdays. The shrine of Abu Ibrahim, whom the Druze consider their prophet, resides in the oldest part of the town. In Israel, the majority of the approximately 102, 000 Druze consider themselves a distinct religious group.Since 1957, the Israeli government has also designated the Druze a distinct ethnic community, at the request of the community's leaders. The Druze culture is Arab and their language Arabic, but they opted against mainstream Arab nationalism in 1948 and have since served (first as volunteers, later within the draft system) in the Israel Defense Forces and the Border Police. They are located in the north of the country, mainly on hilltops; historically as a defense against attack and persecution. which they were subject to historically from the Arab-Muslims . The Druze mostly do not identify with the cause of Arab nationalism. In the years preceding the founding of the State of Israel, Arab nationalists persecuted the Druze. The Druze are a religious community found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, whose traditional religion is said to have begun as an offshoot of Islam, but is unique in its incorporation of Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and other philosophies, similar to other followers of Ismaili Shi'a Islam. Theologically, Druze consider themselves "an Islamic Unist, reformatory sect". The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid "People of Unitarianism or Monotheism" or al-Muwaḥḥidūn "Unitarians, Monotheists."
