The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman rule, 1516-1788 / Stefan Winter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winter, Stefan, 1970- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shīʻah--Lebanon--History.

Shīʻah.

Shiites--Political activity--Lebanon.

Shiites.

Lebanon--Politics and government.

Lebanon.

Lebanon--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides an original perspective on the history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the 19th century, based primarily on Ottoman Turkish documents. From these, he examines how local Shiites were well integrated in the Ottoman system of rule, and that Lebanon as an autonomous entity only developed in the course of the 18th century through the marginalization and then violent elimination of the indigenous Shiite leaderships by an increasingly powerful Druze-Maronite emirate. As such the book recovers the Ottoman-era history of a group which has always been neglected in chronicle-based works, and in doing so, fundamentally calls into question the historic place within 'Lebanon' of what has today become the country's largest and most activist sectarian community.

Contents:

1. Shiism in the Ottoman Empire: between confessional ambiguity and administrative pragmatism. Shiism in Turkish history ; The Ottoman emirate, the Janissaries and Bektasi Sufism ; The Kizilbas challenge ; Ebu's-Suud: the formation of a persecuting society? ; Shiism in Ottoman thought ; The Shiites of Jabal 'Amil and the clerical migration to Iran ; The Shiite holy places in Iraq ; Urban Shiism and the ashraf ; Conclusion: what ideology?

2. The invention of Lebanon: Ottoman governance in the coastal highlands, 1568-1636. The 'classical system' of rule ; Ottoman sovereignty in Syria ; Emir titles and iltizam tax farming ; Shiism in the Bekaa Valley ; The Harfush emirs of Baalbek ; The nexus between imperial and local interests ; The contest with Fakhr al-Din ibn Ma'n ; Conclusion: what emirate?

3. Mount Lebanon under Shiite rule: the Hamada emirate', 1641-1685. Shiite tribalism in Mt Lebanon ; Ottoman tax regimes in Tripoli ; The rise of the Hamadas ; The narrative of Shiite tyranny ; The Koprulu era ; The Hamadas' iltizam commissions ; The Hamadas in court ; Conclusion: the fragile consensus

4. The reshaping of authority: the Shiites and the state in crisis, 1685-1699. The Shiite rebellion ; The Khazins and the Maronite 'recolonization' of the Kisrawan ; The expansion of the Druze emirate ; The imperial punitive campaign ; Changing paradigms of provincial administration ; Shiism and Ottoman tribal control ; Conclusion: a new era?

5. Jabal Amil in the Ottoman period: the origins of 'south Lebanon', 1666-1781. Sidon and Safad under Ottoman rule ; Shiism in Jabal Amil ; Retreat in the northern mukataas ; The Ali al-Saghirs of the Bilad Bishara ; The struggle against Shihabi hegemony ; Nasif Nassar and Zahir al-Umar ; The forging of Lebanese history ; Cezzar and the Shiites ; Conclusion: a golden age?

6. From dependence to redundancy: the decline of Shiite rule in Tripoli and the Bekaa, 1699-1788. The Voyvodalik of the Bekaa ; The 'Kizilbas Mukataa' of Mt Lebanon ; The Hamadas and the Maronite Church ; The Lebanese Order ; The inversion of power ; The Shihabi emirate's Shiite subsidiary in Baalbek ; The 'national uprising' ; The Shiites under Shihabi rule ; Conclusion: the logic of Lebanon

Conclusion. The triumph of Lebanism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-511-73968-0

1-107-20881-5

1-282-53625-7

9786612536250

0-511-67864-9

0-511-68187-9

0-511-67738-3

0-511-68385-5

0-511-67641-7

0-511-67989-0

OCLC:

609860966