Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, The Oxford Handbook of American Islam, Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 142, ISBN 9780199862634.
«While they appear parallel to those of normative Islam, in the Druze religion they are different in meaning and interpretation. The religion is consider distinct from the Ismaili as well as from other Muslims belief and practice... Most Druze consider themselves fully assimilated in American society and do not necessarily identify as Muslims..»