Making of a Syrian Identity
Subtitle: Intellectuals and Merchants in Nineteenth Century Beirut (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia) ... Studies of the Middle East and Asia)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9789004141698
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Beirut; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; Middle East - General; Lebanon; Intellectual life; Anthropology - Cultural; Islamic Studies; Syrians; 19th century; Beirut (Lebanon); National characteristics, Syrian
First sentence: Three developments which occurred during the reign of Amir Bashir II, ruler of Mount Lebanon between the years 1788-1840, were important for the initial steps in the formation of the Syrian identity.