The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 15161788 by Stefan Winter

The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 15161788 by Stefan Winter

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.

Stefan Winter is Professeur Regulier at the Universite du Quebec ... Montreal (UQAM). His previous publications have included a number of articles for various journals including Oriente Moderno and the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

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ISBN 13	9780521765848
ISBN 10	0521765846
Title	The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 15161788
Author	Stefan Winter
Series	Cambridge Studies In Islamic Civilization
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2010-03-11
Number of pages	218
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