Jabal al-Druze

Jabal al-Druze, Arabic for the Mountain of the Druze and also called Jabal al-Arab or Jabal Hauran, is an elevated volcanic region in the Hauran of southern Syria, lying almost entirely within the Suwayda Governorate. Most of its inhabitants are Druze, with significant Christian communities living alongside them, and Suwayda is the one Syrian governorate with a Druze majority. Its volcanic field is the southernmost in Syria and sits on the Haurun-Druze Plateau in the southwest of the country near the border with Jordan, forming the northern part of the much larger Harrat al-Sham volcanic field that reaches into Saudi Arabia. Safaitic inscriptions were first found in the area, and from 1921 to 1936 it formed the autonomous Jabal Druze State within the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.