Lebanese Druze

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The Lebanese Druze (Arabic: دروز لبنان, romanized: durūz Lubnān) are an ethnoreligious group constituting about 5.2 percent of the population of Lebanon. They follow the Druze faith, which is an esoteric monotheistic Abrahamic religion originating from the Levant. They identify as "unitarians", i.e. monotheists (Arabic: موحدين, romanized: muwaḥḥidīn, lit. 'believers in one [God]'). There are estimated to be fewer than 1 million Druze worldwide. The Druze are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut. Lebanon has the world's second-largest Druze population, after Syria's. Under the Lebanese political division (Parliament of Lebanon Seat Allocation), the Druze community is designated as one of the five Lebanese Muslim communities in Lebanon (Sunni, Shia, Druze, Alawi, and Ismaili), although the Druze are no longer considered formally Muslim. Lebanon's constitution was intended to guarantee political representation for each of the nation's ethno-religious groups...

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