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The religious sect originated as a 10th-century offshoot of Shiite Islam, with roughly half of the world's one million Druze living in Syria.
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Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
The Druze are an offshoot of a branch of Shiite Islam.
—Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 16 July 2025
Israel has threatened to increase its involvement in Syria and vowed to protect the Druze religious minority, which began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam, the Associated Press reported.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2025
The shaping of modern Lebanon Ideologically, developments in Iran played a major role in shaping the circumstances in which Hezbollah, the Shiite Islamist political party and paramilitary group, was born.
—Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 9 July 2025
The ceremony Khamenei attended commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein, a pivotal event in Shiite Islam that created the historic rift between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025
To quell the unrest, the government rushed reinforcements to the region, an Assad stronghold with a large number of Alawites, who practice an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
—Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan is viewed as a key opponent of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph and a central figure in Shiite Islam.
—Ismaeel Naar, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Even the western coastal homelands of Assad and his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, largely acquiesced to Sharaa's leadership.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
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Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
The Druze are an offshoot of a branch of Shiite Islam.
—Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 16 July 2025
Israel has threatened to increase its involvement in Syria and vowed to protect the Druze religious minority, which began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam, the Associated Press reported.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2025
The shaping of modern Lebanon Ideologically, developments in Iran played a major role in shaping the circumstances in which Hezbollah, the Shiite Islamist political party and paramilitary group, was born.
—Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 9 July 2025
The ceremony Khamenei attended commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein, a pivotal event in Shiite Islam that created the historic rift between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025
To quell the unrest, the government rushed reinforcements to the region, an Assad stronghold with a large number of Alawites, who practice an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
—Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan is viewed as a key opponent of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph and a central figure in Shiite Islam.
—Ismaeel Naar, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Even the western coastal homelands of Assad and his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, largely acquiesced to Sharaa's leadership.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Shiite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Shiite. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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