- Title : The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon
- Author : Ussama Makdisi
- Rating : 4.84 (603 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-5-12
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 274 Pages
- Asin : 0520218469
- Language : English
Makdisi argues that sectarianism represented a deliberate mobilization of religious identities for political and social purposes. The religious violence of the nineteenth century, which culminated in sectarian mobilizations and massacres in 1860, was a complex, multilayered, subaltern expression of modernization, he says, not a primordial reaction to it. His study challenges those
Makdisi argues that sectarianism represented a deliberate mobilization of religious identities for political and social purposes. The religious violence of the nineteenth century, which culminated in sectarian mobilizations and massacres in 1860, was a complex, multilayered, subaltern expression of modernization, he says, not a primordial reaction to it. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groups. The Ottoman reform movement launched in 1839 and the growing European presence in the Middle East contributed to the disintegration of the traditional Lebanese social order based on a hierarchy that bridged religious differences. Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. Makdisi highlights how European colonialism and Orientalism, with their emphasis on Christian salvation and Islamic despotism, and Ottoman and local nationalisms each created and used narratives of sectarianism as foils to their own visions of modernit
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