The Berlin Druze Lexicon

Abstract

This statement was written some years ago in connection with Dr. Nejla M. Izzeddin's dissertation on the origins and ethnic composition of the Druzes. For various reasons, that excellent study will probably for some time to come not be published as originally intended. A renewed interest in some Druzic publication is in the offing in Germany. This writer has recently gathered material, which is now in course of publication. Although this essay bears the marks of the place for which it was originally composed, it has, perhaps, independence enough despite that fact to serve now as an introduction to renewed Druzic publication in this Journal and in ZDMG and perhaps in a complementary way to Professor Strothmann's studies in Der Islam.