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This work fills an important gap in the literature on Syria, for no study in English devotes more than 30 pages to the first five years of Syrian independence. I argue that bitter sectional and communal competition, not class warfare, undermined Syria's fragile political center …

The Syrian provinces of the Ottoman Empire experienced significant events, such as the Egyptian invasion, the Tanzimat Reforms and the increasing activities of Protestant missionaries between 1831 and 1876. In this thesis, I tried to analyze the course of the Ottoman-Nusayri rel…

This dissertation deals with the history of the Alevi communities historically known as the Kizilbash in Ottoman Anatolia. Scholars have typically treated Alevism as an undifferentiated strain within the hazy category of "heterodox folk Islam" and mostly in terms of the role the…