Based on manuscripts held in European libraries. Two volumes; Internet Archive holds several Google Books scans.
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CLM-0028 · Content
The Druze books teach that God, who cannot be grasped by the senses or defined in words, has appeared to people at various times in human form, last as the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh at the start of the fifth century AH; that al-Ḥākim disappeared in 411 AH to test the faithful; and that he will return to triumph over his enemies.
Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04. De Sacy's own summary of the Druze manuscripts in European libraries, not a translation of a single passage.
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CLM-0029 · Content
They teach that the Universal Intelligence, God's first creation, appeared in the time of al-Ḥākim as Ḥamza ibn Aḥmad, through whom all other creatures were made and who is the sole channel of religious knowledge and the only mediator with God.
Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04. De Sacy's own summary of the Druze manuscripts in European libraries, not a translation of a single passage.
SRC-0014: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0014: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0008: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0030 · Content
They teach that the number of human beings is always the same and that souls pass successively into different bodies; that believers must keep Ḥamza's seven commandments, chiefly truthfulness, charity towards fellow believers, renunciation of their former religion, and submission to God's will; and that all earlier religions were imperfect figures of the true one, whose ritual laws are allegories now abrogated.
Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04. De Sacy's own summary of the Druze manuscripts in European libraries, not a translation of a single passage.
SRC-0014: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0014: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0008: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
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DISC-0017 · record_unreviewed: Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth.
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ITEM-0008 · status_without_dated_evidence: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
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