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Autore: |
Harris William W
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Titolo: |
Lebanon : a history, 600-2011 / / William Harris
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
Disciplina: | 956.92 |
Soggetto geografico: | Lebanon History |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-333) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Foundations -- Emerging communities, 600-1291 -- Druze ascent, 1291-1633 -- Mountain lords, 1633-1842 -- Modern Lebanon -- Emerging Lebanon, 1842-1943 -- Independent Lebanon, 1943-1975 -- Broken Lebanon, 1975-2011. |
Sommario/riassunto: | In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from their origins between the sixth and eleventh centuries. The identities of Maronite Christians, Twelver Shia Muslims, and Druze, the mountain communities, developed alongside assertions of local chiefs under external powers from the Umayyads to the Ottomans. The chiefs began interacting in a common |
Titolo autorizzato: | Lebanon ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-998658-4 |
1-283-74236-5 | |
0-19-972059-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826144803321 |
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