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Was our Y ancestor a Druze? - Journals of a Time Traveller
Within hours of publishing my most recent hypothesis: Was our ancestor a Baloch Lascar, I receive news of an incredible rare event. Someone else on the FTDNA Big Y tested to Y Haplogroup L L-SK1414 (L1b2c). The sample belonged to a Druze genetics project, and was taken from a man from the Druze town of Zaroun (Matn District) in Lebanon.
Arab ethnoreligious group of the Levant
Factsheet
Total population 800,000–2,000,000
Founder Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad
Regions with significant populations
Total population 800,000–2,000,000
Founder Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad
Regions with significant populations
Wikipedia
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Druze - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - The Druze faith originated in Isma'ilism (a branch of Shia Islam), and has been influenced by a diverse range of traditions, including Christianity, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Pythagoreanism. This has led to the development of a distinct and secretive theology, characterized by an esoteric interpretation of scripture that emphasizes the importance of the mind and truthfulness.
Do the Druze actually descend from Christians and not Muslims?
You're asking two different questions here. In terms of Tawheed as a theology being an offshoot of Ismaili Islam, it's true, the Ismaili roots of Druzism are very obvious. In terms of our genetic origins and makeup, no one really knows, however genetic testing shows that as a population overall we're the same as the other Levantine populations in Syria and Lebanon AFAIK. The Tanukhids for example were an Arab tribe that migrated from southern Arabia to the Levant in the 2nd century, they were Christianized, then converted to Islam and finally their Emirs of the Chouf mountains converted to Druzism. They were the biggest Arab tribe that joined the Druze call. A big issue with this is that our history wasn't really documented until the 15th-16th century, so no firsthand sources exist about the proto-Druze and the early Druze. Oral traditions differ by agenda, people make a big deal about our fair skin complexion but it's not so different from your average northern Syrian/Lebanese, so God only knows where we really originate from, if I had to bet, I'd just say a mish mash of local Levantine populations. More on reddit.com
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December 27, 2024Lebanese Druze DNA Test
I’m interested in doing one myself now, my mom is from Aley as well but a different village that’s one of the purest Druze villages in Lebanon, I’ve heard they have Syrian origins from Sweida, Syria aswell. More on reddit.com
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October 2, 2023Druze Lebanese results
Are the Druze an ethnoreligious group? More on reddit.com
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September 12, 2023Druze genetic origin
There are no druze in palestine. They live in Israel and they serve in the israeli military More on reddit.com
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June 1, 2024Videos
Ancient Origins
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Who are the Druze and How Might the Shroud of Turin Relate Them to Jesus Christ? | Ancient Origins
In conclusion, the Druze did exist (holding the same beliefs they exist in now) since time-eternal, and not only for the 1000 years they were known historically as ‘Druze’. The evidence of such existence is lately confirmed by the discovery of an exact match between the Druze DNA and Christ’s DNA.
Ynetnews
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The Jews' Druze brothers
Elhaik says that the DNA origins of Ashkenazi Jews and Druze come from a mountainous area where several ancient villages whose names derive from the word “Ashkenaz” were found.
The Conversation
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Solving the 1,000-year-old mystery of Druze origin with a genetic sat nav
September 29, 2025 - Previous research has always placed the origins of the Druze in the the Near East region. And by zooming in on the area, our genetic GPS traced most Druze to the region that overlaps northeast Turkey, southwest Armenia and northern Iraq.
PLOS
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The Druze: A Population Genetic Refugium of the Near East | PLOS One
May 7, 2008 - We observed a striking overall pattern of heterogeneous parental origins, consistent with Druze oral tradition, together with both a high frequency and a high diversity of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) X haplogroup within a confined regional subpopulation.
Semantic Scholar
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[PDF] Reconstructing Druze population history | Semantic Scholar
The mixed Near Eastern–Middle Eastern localisation of the Druze, shown using both modern and ancient DNA data, is distinct from that of neighbouring Syrians, Palestinians and most of the Lebanese, who exhibit a high affinity to the Levant. Druze biogeographic affinity, migration patterns, ...
FamilyTreeDNA
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Druze Y-DNA Project - Background - FamilyTreeDNA
• The DNA studies done on the Druze so far prove their genetic diversity; with Y-DNA haplogroups: (J, E, R, G, L, Q, C, K/T), & mtDNA Haplogroups: (H, K, X, U, T, HV, I, J, L2, M1, N1, W, R0).
PubMed Central
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Genotyping of geographically diverse Druze trios reveals substructure and a recent bottleneck - PMC
A number of previous studies have investigated the genetic structure of the Druze. Shlush et al13, 14 used mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome markers to find particularly high diversity of uniparental haplogroups in Galilee Druze. Zalloua et al13 and more recently, Haber et al15 studied the genetic structure of Lebanon and showed that Druze are genetically distinct from other Lebanese religious groups (Muslims and Christians).
Genoplot
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Is there druze dna in me? I am from romania.
November 1, 2020 - Visualize your genetic ancestry
Nature
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Reconstructing Druze population history | Scientific Reports
November 16, 2016 - Our biogeographical analyses highlight the high genetic similarity between Druze and Near Eastern populations, compared with Levantine populations who were predicted close to each other and some of the Druze. This is in agreement with an ancient DNA study28 where Druze clustered with few Lebanese, close to a Chalcolithic Anatolian and Chalcolithic/Bronze Age Armenians, and away from Levantine populations who clustered with Neolithic/Bronze Age Levantines.
ScienceDaily
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Genetics Confirm Oral Traditions Of Druze In Israel | ScienceDaily
June 4, 2025 - The Druze harbor a remarkable diversity of mitochondrial DNA types or lineages that appear to have separated from each other many thousands of years ago, according to a new study by multinational team.
Kurdishglobe
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Kurds and Druze in New Syria - Kurdishglobe
December 16, 2024 - There is substantial evidence of the Druze’s Kurdish origins, most notably the scientific research by two Israeli sociologists and historians from Haifa University, Professor (Ayz Almuj) and Dr. (Haik), who conducted DNA fingerprint research on the Druze’s fundamental origins.
PubMed Central
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC10137689
Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of Druze Provides Insights into Carrier Screening - PMC
HGDP cohort—The HGDP contains 929 DNA samples and WGS data from ethnically diverse individuals, including 40 Druze samples [10]. HGDP DNA samples were Illumina-genome sequenced to an average coverage of 35× (minimum 25×) and reads were mapped to the GRCh38 reference assembly as reported [10]. HGDP Druze study individuals resided in Druze villages in the Carmel and Galilee regions of Israel and not in the Golan Heights.
FamilyTreeDNA
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Druze Y-DNA Project - Overview - FamilyTreeDNA
The project is open to males with Druze patrilineal ancestry as well as other individuals with close Y-DNA genetic matches to our project members. Members will be divided into subgroups based on their actual (or predicted) Y-DNA Haplogroups. Members are encouraged to take at least the Y-DNA 37 STR markers test.
Aeon
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Solving the mystery of the Druze – a 2,000-year-old odyssey | Aeon Ideas
April 8, 2021 - Most of the Druze, we have found, can be traced to the highest mountains in Turkey, northern Iraq and southern Armenia, and to the Zagros Mountain belt bordering Mount Ararat – very close to ancient Ashkenaz. By comparing the DNA of contemporary Druze to DNA dated 1,000-4,000 years ago from the Levant, Turkey and Armenia, my lab confirmed these findings.
Quora
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Who are the Druze people descended from? - Quora
Answer (1 of 5): They have in the past stated that they had origins from the Yemen area, but it’s more like their ancestry traces to upper Mesopatamia, through Turkey and the Caucuses region.
PubMed
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › 27848937
Reconstructing Druze population history - PubMed
November 16, 2016 - The biogeographical analysis localised proto-Druze to the mountainous regions of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq and southeast Syria and their descendants clustered along a trajectory between these two regions. The mixed Near Eastern-Middle Eastern localisation of the Druze, shown using both modern and ancient DNA data, is distinct from that of neighbouring Syrians, Palestinians and most of the Lebanese, who exhibit a high affinity to the Levant.
Reddit
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r/druze on Reddit: Do the Druze actually descend from Christians and not Muslims?
December 27, 2024 -
The Druze despite being considered its own ethno-religion, are often said to be an off-shoot of Ismaili Islam. But how true is that?
According to genetic studies, the Druze are nearly identical to Levantine Christians, and don’t seem to be mixed with Arabs like most Muslims. Does that mean Druze overwhelmingly descend from Levantine Christians who joined the Druze faith when it was allowed to convert, rather than Muslims joining the faith?
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You're asking two different questions here. In terms of Tawheed as a theology being an offshoot of Ismaili Islam, it's true, the Ismaili roots of Druzism are very obvious. In terms of our genetic origins and makeup, no one really knows, however genetic testing shows that as a population overall we're the same as the other Levantine populations in Syria and Lebanon AFAIK. The Tanukhids for example were an Arab tribe that migrated from southern Arabia to the Levant in the 2nd century, they were Christianized, then converted to Islam and finally their Emirs of the Chouf mountains converted to Druzism. They were the biggest Arab tribe that joined the Druze call. A big issue with this is that our history wasn't really documented until the 15th-16th century, so no firsthand sources exist about the proto-Druze and the early Druze. Oral traditions differ by agenda, people make a big deal about our fair skin complexion but it's not so different from your average northern Syrian/Lebanese, so God only knows where we really originate from, if I had to bet, I'd just say a mish mash of local Levantine populations.
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The question is a bit nuanced. Firstly it is an ethnoreligion, which has ethnic heritage as far back as the time of Jethro, Moshe's (Moses) father in law. Secondly, the Druze which again is ethnic AND religious group---is Abrahamic... It is not Christian or Jewish or Muslim; the ethnoreligion element is similar to Judaism, but one key difference. It is a closed religion. There are no conversions in our out of the tribe (about one million worldwide). They are also not open to giving information about their traditions to outsiders. For western people to have a relatable comparison.. think similar to Amish in the sense of the separation from worldly things as much as possible. Not all are as strict, but that is the essence of things and why the religion is closed. The religion itself only became organized around 1100 current era, I want to say in Egypt under the caliphate at the time. Likely why they are so secretive about their faith as well. While it is not Christian, Jewish or Muslim, it does recognize key elements and figures from other Abrahamic religions. I will say, from what I know of them, they have a belief of reincarnation similar to Judaism, no hell or heaven .... Not in the way Christians believe. In Judaism, we call it Gilgulim Neshama "cycle of the soul". They have similar known traditions to all 3 religions, but what I do also know, is that their most central "prophet" seems to be Jesus, if that helps Christians out with an answer... The closest thing I can give anyway lol. He's seen as a Prophet to them, but a highly, HIGHLY regarded one. It's a layered question with an even more layered answer than I can even give without writing a book. I'm half Arab and I'm also half Mizrahi (Persian) Jewish and religiously Jewish. Ethnoreligions are a tricky thing to explain to people, because it's very much nuanced with many variables. When you're dealing with ethnoreligions it gets very complex, especially when the official religion wasn't cemented until so much later than the others. It doesn't make Druze religion an "offshoot" religion either, which I feel is important to say. I've heard Muslims suggest they're an offshoot of Shia, similar to Alawite, which is not correct. Being in a certain culture, which had certain traditions with regards to treatment of other religions and a history of forced conversions, to suggest that because a culture developed under a theocracy, is a direct part of that culture is a bit reductive. There are many people who are often Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and even Greek you who discover that despite being Christian, their DNA suggests Sephardic Jewish lineage in their profile. Same with Arabs who discover Mizrahi Jewish dna. Forced conversion can cause these surprises later on down the road. I think there are CULTURAL influences, but that their religion is unique and being a closed religion does murky things, but I respect it and the Druze people. I will also say, for my Christian friends. An interesting thing I recently read was that, upon studying the samples from the alleged burial shroud along with the alleged remains of John the Baptist, they were found to have DRUZE mitochondrial DNA, which suggests that, in the time of Jesus, on his mother's side... When the conversion in Judaism was not as strict and when Druze didn't disallow conversion, that at some point, his mother's family had married a member of the Druze tribe. He was still obviously Jewish, a Rabbi, but I thought that was really interesting. What we know is that Druze can be found as far away from the Middle East as Venezuela. So, if you have Hispanic lineage... Not only do you have a 25% chance of having Sephardic Jewish DNA , but also Druze is a possibility. Thought that was a pretty neat facto!
Facebook
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Druze origins linked to Proto-Armenian ancestry
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