Hasbaya or Hasbeiya is a town in Lebanon, situated at the foot of Mount Hermon, overlooking a deep amphitheatre from which a brook flows to the Hasbani. In 1911, the population was about 5,000.
Hasbaya Citadel
1857 sketch of Hasbaya by van de Velde
Emir Shahib's castle/citadel in 1925
The Lebanese Druze are an ethnoreligious group constituting about 5.2 percent of the population of Lebanon. They follow the Druze faith, which is an esoteric Abrahamic religion originating from the Near East, and self identify as unitarians.
A Druze woman wearing a tantour during the 1870s in Chouf, Lebanon
Christian Church and Druze Khalwa in Shuf Mountains.
Prophet Job shrine in Niha village.
Left to right: Christian mountain dweller from Zahlé, Christian mountain dweller of Zgharta, and a Lebanese Druze man in traditional attire (1873).