The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon
Ussama Makdisi examines the culture of sectarianism in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon, focusing on the relationships among community, history, and violence. This work of Middle Eastern history explores how collective identities and historical experience shaped social and political life in a significant period of Lebanon’s past.
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The Culture of Sectarianism examines community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon.
Ussama Makdisi focuses on the development and significance of sectarianism within this historical setting.
The book considers how collective identities and historical understandings related to violence and social change.
It offers a focused study of Lebanon under Ottoman rule and the cultural forces that shaped its modern history.
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