A History of the Druzes

ISBN-10
9004094377
ISBN-13
9789004094376
Category
Religion / Islam / History
Pages
395
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
E.J. Brill
Author
Kais Firro

Description

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 Migration to Hawran 31 From Palestine to Hawran 42 From Jabal al-Ala to Hawran 47 From Mt. Lebanon and Wadi at-Taym to Hawran 49 Ch. 2 The Roots of the Maronite-Druze Conflict 54 From Feudal to Sectarian Conflict 54 The Druzes under Ibrahim Pasha 61 The Druze Revolt, 1837-1838 66 Ch. 3 The Maronite-Druze Conflict, 1841-1845 79 Civil Strife and the Fall of the Shihabis 79 The Druze Revolt against the Ottomans, 1842 92 Ottomans, French, and British, and a New Political System 95 Ch. 4 The Road to the Civil War of 1860 103 The Regulations of Shakib Afandi 103 Druze Unity and Factionalism 108 Druze-Maronite Rivalry in a Fragile Political System 114 The Final Stage of Decline 119 Pt. 3 Jabal Hawran Becomes Jabal ad-Duruz 127 Ch. 1 The Hawran Refuge 129 After the French Intervention 129 Jabal ad-Duruz and the Ottoman Reforms 138 Waiting for Settlement 149 Ch. 2 Centripetal Immigration 154 Pull or Push? 154 From Peripheral Region to Center 164 Newcomers in a New Land 170 Ch. 3 The Development of the Druze Mashyakha in the Ottoman Context 178 The Leading Families 178 Atrashs - From al-Qraya to as-Suwayda 185 The Druze Mashyakha System and the Ottoman Reforms 195 Ch. 4 Independent Spirit vs. Ottomanization 206 A Dualist Structure 206 Toward a Peasant Revolt (Ammiyya) 211 The Ammiyya of 1899-1890 220 The Desperate Strife 228 Jabal ad-Duruz at the End of the Ottoman Period 237 Pt. 4 Between Communal Particularism and Arab Nationalism 245 Ch. 1 A Particularist Minority Facing the French Mandate 247 The Druze and the Arab Revolt, 1916-1919 247 French Recognition of the Druze Mashyakha 257 An Irreconcilable Contradiction: Mashyakha vs. Mandate 263 The Druze Revolt: From Communal to National Uprising 271 Ch. 2 Between Nationalism and Separatism 288 From Druze Insurgency to the Great Syrian Revolt 288 A New Form of Separatism 298 After the Franco-Syrian Treaty of 1936 305 Ch. 3 Druze Particularism in the Shadow of the Palestinian-Zionist Conflict 314 Facing the Palestinian-Zionist Conflict 314 Zionist Encouragement of Druze Particularism 323 The Druzes and the 1936-1939 Uprising 327 The Zionist Transfer Plan 337 Pt. 5 Conclusion - The Present in Historical Perspective 351 Bibliography 365 Index 373.

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