Khalwat al-Bayada

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Khalwat al-Bayada ( Arabic خلوات البياضة, DMG Ḫalwāt al-Bayāḍa , also: Khalwet el Biyad , Khalwat al-Biyyada , roughly: White House of the Assembly ) is the central sanctuary of the Druze . Khalwat (from Chalwa = loneliness) are also called other houses of prayer. The Khalwat al-Bayada is located in Bayada, Lebanon .

The Khalwat is near Hasbaya , in the Mount Lebanon Governorate and, according to tradition, is at the place where ad-Darazi is said to have lived and taught during the first Divine Call (Da'wat at-tawḥīd in Arabic دعوة التوحيد (دروز)). The building also houses a large, circular stone bench on an ancient oak tree known as the Aeropagus of Elders . The Khalwat has forty hermitages for the "initiates" ( al-ʻuqqāl ). To 1838 also were letters of wisdom (Rasa'il al-Hikma in Arabic رسائل الحكمة) kept there, but stolen by Egyptian conquerors. Permission from the local sheikh is required for the visit .

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  2. ^ Mordechai Nisan: Minorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle and Self-Expression. McFarland 2002: 98. ISBN 978-0-7864-1375-1
  3. ^ A b Laurence Oliphant: The Land of Gilead - With Excursions in the Lebanon. Read Books Design 2010. ISBN 978-1-4460-0407-4
  4. ^ Albert Socin, Immanuel Benzinger, John Punnett Peters: Palestine and Syria, with routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and the island of Cyprus: handbook for travelers. [2] K. Baedeker 1912.
  5. ^ Robert Boulanger: The Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran. [3] Hachette 1966.