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that happens sometimes. I tend to hate it a lot. You okay?

Origin of the name

The most plausible theory of the origin of the name Druze is that the term is traceable to Nashtakin ad-Darazi, one of the early leaders of the faith, even though the Druze consider ad-Darazi a heretic [24]who practiced ghuluww (from Arabic exaggeration), which is a belief held by some Islamic sects that God was incarnated in human beings, specially Imam Ali and his descendants.

The Druze sect gained his name because he was the Dai who first preached a distorted version of the faith to outsiders in 1016 and claimed to be the true Imam rather than Hamza ibn Ali and that al-Hakim was the incarnation of God; proceeded by his ancestors, the descendents of Imam Ali. Though he is considered a renegade by the "Unitarians" the name "Druze" is still used for identification and for historical reasons. Ad-Darazi was killed in 1018 because of his extreme ideas concerning Al-Hakim.[7][24]

Others have speculated the word Druze comes from the Arabic-Persian word Darazo (درز), meaning "heaven"; others claim that it is derived from the name of the Fatimid military commander Abī Mansūr Anushtakīn ad-Darazī or that of a Fatimid Egyptian landlord, Shaykh Hussayn ad-Darazī, who was one of the early converts to the faith.[25] In the early stages of the movement the word "Druze" is rarely mentioned by historians, and in Druze religious texts only the word Muwahhidūn ("Unitarian") appears. The only early Arab historian who mentions the Druze is the 11th century Christian scholar Yahyá ibn Saīd al-Antākī, who clearly references the heretical group created by ad-Darazī rather than the followers of Hamza bin Alī.[25] As for Western sources, Benjamin of Tudela, the Jewish traveler who passed through Lebanon in or about 1165 was one of the first European writers to refer to the Druzes by name. The word Dogziyin ("Druzes") occurs in an early Hebrew edition of his travels, but it is clear that this is a scribal error. Be that as it may, he described the Druze as "mountain dwellers, monotheists, who believe in "soul eternity" and reincarnation."[26]

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