A religio-ethnic community and offshoot of the Shīʿī Ismāʿīlī branch of Islam. The Druze(durzī, pl. durūz) trace their origins to early eleventh-century Fāṭimid Cairo and the reign of the Ismāʿīlī Imām-Caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh (r. 386/996-411/1021). The Druze faith or doctrine (madhhab) is based on 111 “Epistles of Wisdom” (rasāʾil al-ḥikma) written during the brief period of its propagation, 408/1017-435/1043. Three centuries later th…