Lebanon: The Rise and Fall of a Secular State Under Siege

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction and Conceptual Framework
	Political Confessionalism: Modern Blessing or Ancient Bane?
	Characteristics of Lebanon's Castes and Client Groups: Ṭā'ifiyā
	Conceptual and Analytic Approach
	Structure and Outline
1 Definitions and Genealogies of Secularism
	Working Definition of Secularism for the Purposes of This Book
2 Prototypes of Secularism in Lebanon
	The Premodern Identity and Social Structure of Lebanon: In Search of Proto-Secularism
	Origins and Formation of the Lebanese State: The Two Switzerlands: A Concise Comparison of Two Distinctly Related Consociational Models
	Napoleon Bonaparte and His Arab Acolytes: Nineteenth-Century Enlightened Despotism?
	The Rupture of Revolution: Did Secularizing, Republican Reform Spark Sectarianism?
	Inherited Sin or Inescapable, Saving Grace? Tracing the Lineage of the Lebanese Confessional System
	Birth of the Vaṭan
	Occidentalist Defamation of Secularism: Missionaries, Masons, and the Mutanawwirūn
	From Anti-imperial Dissent to National Consent: World War I and the Formation of a Trans-Sectarian National Consciousness in Lebanon
3 Way Stations of the Lebanese Republic
	Confessionalism as a Colonial Legacy or Domestic Necessity?
	The First Republic of 1926: Constitutional Contradictions and Lacunae
	Respective Rates of Confessional Accommodation to the New State
	The ''Ṫayf'' (''Ghost'') of Ṫā'if
	The Proposed Reform of the Electoral Districts and Demographic Dilemmas
	Twentieth-Century Lebanese Parties and Secularism: A Brief Outline of the Debate (1926-2006)
	The Old and New Zu'amā' Emerging from the Civil War
4 Socioeconomic Globalization and Secularism 1990-2005
	The Merchant Prince: The Impact of the Postwar Ḥarīrī Era
	Family Farms and the Patronization of Privatization after 1990
	Social Stratification, Status, and Intersectarian Relations in Postwar Lebanon
	Embattled Freedom and Secular Sphere of the Media 1977-2004
	Promise and Peril of (Rentier) Capitalism Serving As a Catalyst of Secularization
	The Escalating Saudi-Syrian Rivalry for Lebanon and Its Fallout for Secularism
	Conclusion: The Secular State between Political and Social Reform
Conclusion: Secularism and Lebanon in the Eye of the Sectarian Storm
	Secular Signposts in the Evolution of the Polity
Bibliography
	Primary Sources
		Travelogues
	(Historical) Dictionaries
		Books in Arabic
		Books in English
		Books in French
		Books in German
		Journal and Newspaper Articles
	Articles in Edited Books
	Report
	PhD Dissertations and Theses
	Interviews
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