From The Syrian Land To The States Of Syria And Lebanon (beiruter Texte Und Studien)

Die Reihe Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS) ist die Buchreihe des Orient-Instituts fur Grundlagenforschung des historischen und zeitgenossischen Mittleren Ostens. Sie stellt Studien bereit, die auf Primarquellen in Sprachen der Region basieren und bietet thematische sowie methodische Impulse. Dieser Band behandelt "From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon." Table of Contents 6 Introduction 10 1. The Legacy of the Ottoman Empire 16 Identities and loyalties in Bilad al-Sham at the beginning of the early modem period 18 Building a cultural identity: the case of Khalil al-Khuri 36 Reshaping Damascus: social change and patterns of architecture in late Ottoman times 50 From social status to intellectual activity: some prosopographical observations on the municipal council in Beirut, 1868-1908 76 The political significance of an Ottoman education: Maktab 'Anbar revisited 94 2. Religion and the Change of Culture 112 The Nusayris before the Tanzimat in the eyes of Ottoman provincial administrators, 1804-1834 114 Sufi reformist diffusion and the rise of Arabism in late Ottoman Syria 130 Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Reassessing the lineages of nationalism in Bilad al-Sham 144 3. Society and State Building 160 East of Lebanon: colonial borders? 162 Safarbarlik: Ottoman Syria and the Great War 180 From urban notables to “noble Arabs”: shifting discourses in the emergence of nationalism in the Arab East, 1910-1916 192 The birth pangs of rising modernity in Syria 216 4. The Case of Lebanon 224 Rethinking American missionaries and nineteenth-century historiography of the Middle East 226 Beyond the mountain refuge: searching for a wider perspective on Ottoman policy in Mount Lebanon 242 Shifting identities and representations of the nation among the Maronite secular elite in the late Ottoman period 256 5. From Early Resistance to Radical Nationalism in Syria 272 The northern Syrian revolts of 1919-1921 and the Sharifian regime: congruence or conflict of interests and ideologies? 274 Rural resistance and the introduction of modem forms of consciousness in the Syrian countryside, 1918-1926 292 Identifying rebels: insurgents in the countryside of Damascus, 1925-1926 308 Zaki al-Arsuzi and Syrian-Arab nationalism in the periphery: the Alexandretta crisis of 1936-19391 324 An effort to foster Arab nationalism in the early 1930s: the League of National Action 346 The experience of organized nationalism: radical discourse and political socialization in Syria and Lebanon, 1930-19581 360 About the Authors 376 Index 380