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The Shiites of Lebanon Under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788 - 9780521765848

Un libro in lingua di Stefan Winter edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2010

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The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788 provides a new perspective on the previously ignored history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the nineteenth century, based primarily on unpublished Ottoman Turkish documents. From these, he shows 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 eighteenth century through the marginalization and then violent elimination of the indigenous Shiite leaderships by an increasingly powerful DruzeûMaronite 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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