Lebanon: A History, 600 - 2011 (Studies In Middle Eastern History)

Offers a 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. Modern Lebanon arose out of European and Ottoman intervention in the 1860s to secure sectarian peace. Harris contends that Lebanon has not found a new equilibrium and has not transcended its sects. This book offers readers an understanding of how modern Lebanon acquired its precarious social intricacy and its singular political character

• | Author: William Harris|William W. Harris
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0190217839
• | ISBN-13: 9780190217839