"Inventing Lebanon examines the history behind an idea: a new policy of 'Greater Lebanon'. It shows how in the 1920s and 1930s, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, with its own political and economic agenda, various groups of the local elite attempted to create w…
Inventing Lebanon examines the history behind an idea: a new polity of 'Greater Lebanon'. It shows how, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, various groups of the local elite attempted to create what amounted to a new Lebanese nationalism, carving the state into M…
"Inventing Lebanon examines the history behind an idea: a new policy of 'Greater Lebanon'. It shows how in the 1920s and 1930s, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, with its own political and economic agenda, various groups of the local elite attempted to create w…
Table of Contents Preface List of Maps Pt. 1 Introduction 1 Ch. 1 Origins and Early History 3 The Origins of the Druze Faith 3 The Druze Dawa 8 Racial Origins 17 Taqiyya 20 Ethics 23 Early History 25 Pt. 2 From Zenith to Decline 29 Ch. 1 To Hawran 31 The Beginning of the Migrati…