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2024 - Volume 8 - Number 2

The Status of the Druze Woman in Modern Society: Tradition, Challenges, and Social Change in the 21st Century

Fatin Faiad * ORCID: 0009-0000-1124-8149
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA

Open Journal for Sociological Studies, 2024, 8(2), 81-92 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojss.0802.02081f
Received: 16 October 2024 ▪ Revised: 10 December 2024 ▪ Accepted: 17 December 2024

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
In the small Druze family, or rather, the biological Druze family, the father's image dominates while in the extended family, the status of the elder person is respected, and his home serves as a center for the entire extended family (Nabwani, 2005). The father of the family has great authority and control over his family members including expenses and income, choosing a spouse for his children, choosing a political affiliation, and other matters. As for the woman over the years, she has been imprisoned in her home, and a wall of stone and fence protects her yard. On her way through the narrow village alleys, she walked covering her head with a white scarf (Halabi, 1987). Traditional norms have restricted her place, her independence and her freedom of expression. However, over the years, this status has begun to weaken because the woman in the Druze society has experienced many changes in all areas of life, though slowly and partially. It is important to understand what the causes were, what the changes were affected by, and how this was expressed in the social and traditional religious framework. The questions that are frequently raised among the Druze community include: Where is the Druze woman going now? How much does the status of the Druze woman affect a variety of areas such as health, education and individual freedom?

KEY WORDS: clerics, community, divorce, Druze, education, education, freedom, lamenter, murder, reincarnation, traditions, woman.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Fatin Faiad, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Faculty of Philosopy, Department of Sociology, Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA.

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