The View from Istanbul
Subtitle: Ottoman Lebanon and the Druze Emirate
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: September 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781860648564
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Lebanon; History; History - General History; History: World; Ottoman Empire; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; General; 1516-1918; Druzes; Sources
First sentence: This book contains translations into English of the documents of the Ottoman Umur-i Muhimme Defteri, or Register of Public Affairs, which bear on the history of Lebanon - or, rather, the parts of Ottoman Syria that ultimately came to form Lebanon - in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.