Culture of Sectarianism Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon

Name: Culture of Sectarianism Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon
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ISBN: 9780520218468

ISBN-10: 0520218469

ISBN-13: 9780520218468

Edition: 2000

Authors: Ussama Makdisi

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Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groups. The religious violence of the nineteenth century, which culminated in sectarian mobilizations and massacres in 1860, was a complex, multilayered, subaltern expression of modernization, he says, not a primordial reaction to it. Makdisi argues that sectarianism represented a deliberate mobilization of religious identities for political and social…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Maps


Preface and Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration



Religion as the Site of the Colonial Encounter



The Gentle Crusade



Knowledge and Ignorance



The Faces of Reform



Reinventing Mount Lebanon



The Return of the Juhhal



The Devil's Work



"A Very Old Thing"


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index