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1147: 1136: 679: 140:. A small proportion of the tribe took up abode in the Wadi al-Taym at some point during the first centuries of Muslim rule. The Wadi al-Taym was the first area where the Druze appeared in the historical record under the name "Druze". According to many of the genealogical traditions of the Druze feudal families, the feudal Druze clans claimed descent from Arab tribes originally based in 227:. Unlike other immigrants to the Wadi al-Taym, the Shihabs did not embrace the Druze faith, which was the dominant religion of the areas between the Gharb district of southern Mount Lebanon southward to the Wadi al-Taym. In 1287, the Shihab emir Sa'ad ibn Qurqmaz, now allied with the 320:
Hourani, Alexandre Salim., Ethnic, Political and Administrative Geography of the Beqaa, Wadi Al-Taym and Aroub in the Greco-Roman Period, Masters Thesis for the American University of Beirut, November 2006.
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river, the low hills of Wadi al-Taym are covered with rows of silver-green olive trees with the population in the area being predominantly
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Lebanon therefore was the distributing center of the Druze people and Wādi - al - Taym was the birthplace of their faith.
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Baldwin, Marshall W., and Setton, Kenneth M, A History of the Crusades: Volume One, The First Hundred Years, 1969.
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were the territory of the Jandal, a Druze clan. The leader of the clan, Dahhak ibn Jandal allied with the
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and which entered Syria after periods of settlement in the Euphrates Valley. According to the historian
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in retaliation for the murder of his brother Baraq ibn Jandal. In 1133, he entered into conflict with
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Yhiya, Ammar., Tarikh Wadi al-Taym (The History of Wadi al-Taym), Yanta, Lebanon, 1985.
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The Origins of the Druze People: With Extracts from Their Sacred Writings
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The Origins of the Druze People: With Extracts from Their Sacred Writings
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For much of the early 12th century, the Wadi al-Taym and the southern
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just south of Wadi al-Taym. Dahhak had killed Assassin leader
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A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered
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The Druzes: A New Study of Their History, Faith, and Society
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before ultimately embracing Islam after the 7th-century
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Index

Arabic
romanized
wadi
valley
Lebanon
Rachaya
Hasbaya
Mount Hermon
Beqaa Valley
Jordan Valley
Lake Huleh
Hasbani
Druze
Sunni
Christians
Greek Orthodox
Druze faith
Arab
Taym Allat
Euphrates
Christianity
pre-Islamic period
Muslim conquests
eastern Arabia
Nejla Abu-Izzedin
Syria
Chouf
Crusaders
Kingdom of Jerusalem
Assassins

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