page_title: Lebanese Druze
hierarchical_section_title: Lebanese Druze
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture (by French photographer Bonfils showing a typical but formally dressed Druze woman from the shouf region of the shouf mountains, now part of Lebanon (circa 1870). Her unique head gear is called a tartur, popular with Druze women at the time. Français&#160;: Jeune femme en costume traditionnel druze portant le tartur, Chouf, Liban, Vers 1870, par le photographe français Bonfils
context_page_description: Lebanese Druze are Lebanese people who adhere to the Druze faith, a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion, and an ethnoreligious esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as unitarians.
  The Lebanese Druze people are believed to constitute about 5.2 percent of the total population of Lebanon and have around 1.5 million members worldwide. The Druze, who refer to themselves as al-Muwahhideen, or "believers in one God," are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut.
  Under the Lebanese political division the Druze community is designated as one of the five Lebanese Muslim communities in Lebanon, even though the Druze are no longer considered Muslim. Lebanon's constitution was intended to guarantee political representation for each of the nation's ethno-religious groups.
  The Maronite Catholic and the Druze founded modern Lebanon in the early eighteenth century, through the ruling and social system known as the "Maronite-Druze dualism" in Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate.
context_section_description: Lebanese Druze (Arabic: دروز لبنان‎, romanized: durūz lubnān) are Lebanese people  who adhere to the Druze faith, a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion, and an ethnoreligious esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as unitarians (Arabic: موحدين‎, romanized: muwaḥḥidīn).
  The Lebanese Druze people are believed to constitute about 5.2 percent of the total population of Lebanon and have around 1.5 million members worldwide. The Druze, who refer to themselves as al-Muwahhideen, or "believers in one God," are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut.
  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), even though the Druze are no longer considered Muslim. Lebanon's constitution was intended to guarantee political representation for each of the nation's ethno-religious groups.
  The Maronite Catholic and the Druze founded modern Lebanon in the early eighteenth century, through the ruling and social system known as the "Maronite-Druze dualism" in Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate. Under the terms of an unwritten agreement known as the National Pact between the various political and religious leaders of Lebanon, the Chief of the General Staff must be a Druze.
caption: A Druze woman wearing a tantour during the 1870s in Chouf, Lebanon
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