The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
ISBN-10
0521765846
ISBN-13
9780521765848
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 11th, 2010
Print length
218 Pages
Weight
49 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.80 x 1.70 cms
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The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides a perspective on the previously ignored history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society, calling into question the historic place within 'Lebanon' of what has today become the country's largest and most activist sectarian community.
The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides an original perspective on the history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the 19th century, based primarily on Ottoman Turkish documents. From these, he examines how local Shiites were well integrated in the Ottoman system of rule, and that Lebanon as an autonomous entity only developed in the course of the 18th century through the marginalization and then violent elimination of the indigenous Shiite leaderships by an increasingly powerful Druze-Maronite emirate. As such the book recovers the Ottoman-era history of a group which has always been neglected in chronicle-based works, and in doing so, fundamentally calls into question the historic place within 'Lebanon' of what has today become the country's largest and most activist sectarian community.
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