The Druze Community and the Lebanese State: Between Confrontation and Reconciliation

ISBN-13: 9780367867522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 314 str.

Yusri Hazran

Opis

This book grapples with one of the fundamental questions of Lebanese and Middle Eastern studies, namely the history of the relationship between the Druze community and the state in modern Lebanon. Arguing that the Druze community has been politically alienated from the Lebanese state, this book explores the historical and political origins of th

Spis treści

Introduction 1 The Druze and the Lebanese State: A Complex Dialectic 2 Lebanon from Mandatory Rule to the Independence Era: The Druze in the Center of the Storm  3 Lebanon under the Shadow of Revolution: The Druze and the First Civil War 4  The Shadow of Chehabism: Between Cooptation and Radicalization 5 End of the Race: The Second Civil War 6 The Confessionalism Tangle 7 The Struggle Over Lebanon’s History: Selected Matters of the Druze Historiography 8 Conclusions

O autorze

Yusri Hazran is an Associate Fellow at the Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem