Modern History of Lebanon – Kamal S. Salibi
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The Modern History of Lebanon – Kamal S. Salibi
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LebanonPostcard presents The Modern History of Lebanon – Kamal S. Salibi – Hardcover book with jacket, 22×14.5 cm, 228 pages
What is written on the jacket: A well-written study, notable for grasp and balance, by a front-rank Lebanese scholar. Foreign affairs. The first systematic and concise history of modern Lebanon… May well become a standard work. The journal of politics. Professor Salibi is a historian, and as such, first rate… This is a history book that reads like a smooth-flowing novel and should be considered a major addition to the body of knowledge on the middle east. The middle east journal convincing and clear…. Salibi treats his subject with great sensitivity and understanding. Journal of the American oriental society. Clear and beautifully written…. The times literary supplement. Admirable objectivity…. it brings out the essential character of modern Lebanese history in the clearest manner. Bibliotheca orientalis. A work of imaginative scholarship, clear in thought and elegant in expression…. Middle Eastern studies. Le travail est fait cette fois par un Historien de métier, et cela se sent. Mélanges de l’université St. Joseph Beyrouth Liban
Inside jacket: Although Lebanon is one of the smallest of Arab states its role in the political, economic and intellectual history of the Middle East has been out of all proportion to its size. Professor Salibi begins his history with a survey of the country and its people-Muslims, Christians and Druzes – followed by a brief sketch of early Lebanese history. His more detailed historical treatment begins with the reign of Bashir II (1788-1840) and continues to 1960. In a subsequent best-seller, Crossroads to Civil War: Lebanon 1958-1976 (also published by Caravan), the author brings the story down to the present.
The Republic of Lebanon as it stands today dates from the aftermath of the First World War, when the sister states of Syria and Lebanon were set up under French mandate, in the territories conquered from the Ottoman Empire. The Mandate ended during the Second World War, and in 1946 Lebanon became a sovereign state. But the new state was in no way an artificial creation, for under Turkish and Mamluk rule, the people of the Mountain had managed to preserve a considerable measure of autonomy. In the course of the nineteenth century this autonomous state had been formally recognized, and the Lebanese played a crucial role in the cultural and political revival of the Levant and of Arabism.
This history of Lebanon was first published by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson of London in 1965 and has since become an established classic in the field of Middle Eastern history.
Kamal S. Salibi, Professor of History at the American University of Beirut, is well-known to Western readers of Arab history and politics. His publications by Caravan include Crossroads to Civil War: Lebanon 1958-1976 (1976, reprinted 1977) and Syria under Islam, Empire on Trial, 634-1097 (1977).
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