... who claimed to be the Mahdi. They usually appeared as reformers antagonistic to established authority. The differences in the view of the Mahdi between the different sects are the central barrier between a united Shiite division of Islam versus the scattered sects, two of which are the Druze and the Ismailis. The Druze religious community of followers is located in Syria, Lebanon ... ...

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