Leila Fawaz's archival study reconstructs the 1860 civil war between Druze and Maronite Christian communities in Mount Lebanon and its spread to a mass killing of Christians in Damascus, arguing that the violence, while it broke unmistakably along sectarian lines, cannot be explained by sectarian animosity alone: Fawaz situates it against the collapse of Mount Lebanon's confessional double qaimaqamate power-sharing system, changes to land tenure and the silk economy that sharpened class tension within and between the communities, and rival French and British involvement in Ottoman Syria. Fawaz is Professor of Middle East History at Tufts University.
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PublisherUniversity of California Press 1 Publication Year Assessment
Reliability TierA landmark academic study by a university historian of the modern Middle East, built from Ottoman, European consular and missionary archives; the standard scholarly account of the Mount Lebanon phase of the 1860 violence and its social and political causes for three decades. Cross-Tradition Connections
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