DÜRZiLiGiN FELSEFi VE DiNi ARKAPLANI
Authors : Ahmet Baglioglu
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Publication Date : 2003-06-30
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Egypt where the Dru::es See/ appeared and Syria, Lebanon and Palesiine where il flourished have been the centres of various civili=ations and phi/osophical currents. Therefore in these lerriorities various frac/ions and schools of many religions have developed. The Druzes first deve!oped same religious currents and thoughts already available in Jsmai/ism such as Hermetic thought, Neo-Piatonism, Gnosticism, the Breılıren of Purity, Manicheism, lndian Plıilosophy and Zoroastrianism and brought the m loge/her in Jsmailism, thus putting fonıoard a new .faith. We can see the traces ofvarious phi/osophical ideas and religions in the, Drıce Sect. However they have not directly (ın ef!ect on the Dru=e Sect, on the contrary through Ismailism. Accordingly; boıh the Dru::e See/ and Drıce thoughts have sprımg from Ismai/ism.Keywords : The Dru, , e Secı, Hermetic Thought, Neo-Piatonism, The Breılıren of Purity, Gnosticism, The Extremisls