El-Hakim Biami- Allah

the sixth Fatimite Caliph of Egypt, a cruel and fanatical man, who lived in the 11th century, proclaimed himself an incarnation of God, and established a secret society. When walking in the vicinity of Gino, ase capital, he disappeared from his subjects’ view, the most natural explanation being that he was a a inated and his body hidden somewhere. His followers believed in his return to this earth to reign over it, and propagated their faith in the adjacent Jands. Two of the most notable mi ionaries were the Persian me engers, Hamzah and Mohammed ben Is mail ed Derazi. The latter proclaimed the Druse tenets with such zeal in Lebanon that the converts to belief in El-Hakim were called not Hakimites but Druses. The Druses believe in the unity of God, who they think was manifest in the person of several individuals, the last of them Hakim. Their day of worship is Thursday. Ethnologically they are Arabs who came from the E. parts of Pe and settled in Lebanon and Anti lebanon in the 11th century. Their territory on the Lebanon is S. of the Maronites. They extend thence to the Hauran and to Damascus. In 1860 they attacked the Maronites, about 12,000 of whom they cruelly, ma acred, not sparing even women or male children in their fury. This outburst was fast pa ing into a general rise of the Mob am me dans on the Christians of Syria, when the arrival of Turkish and French troops, in August and September, 1860, and the execution of 167 Druses, more deeply criminal than others, restored at least: the semblance of tranquillity. No similar outbreak has since occurred. | Drusilla, a daughter of Herod Agrippa I.,.King of the Jews. She was born A. p. 38; married Azizus, King of Emesa, whom she divorced in order to marry Felix, procurator of Judea. She is thus. the Drusilla who is mentioned in the Acts, and was el present when Paul preached efore Helix.