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The culture of sectarianism : community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon /

Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, this book shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. It challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to Westernization or simply as a product of social and econom...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2000.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.