Syria : society, culture, and polity

Author(s)

• Antoun, Richard T.
• Quataert, Donald
• State University of New York at Binghamton. Program in Southwest Asian and North African Studies

Bibliographic Information

Syria : society, culture, and polity

edited by Richard T. Antoun and Donald Quataert

（SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies）

State University of New York Press, c1991

• :
• : pbk

Note

The product of a conference held in Apr. 1987 at the State University of New York--Binghamton, sponsored by the Southwest Asian and North African Studies Program

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-159) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book provides a multi-disciplinary understanding of the processes of change in contemporary Syria as well as its historical, social, and cultural underpinnings. A number of distinguished anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and literateurs examine key issues such as the changing Syrian family, political factionalism, the sedentarization of nomads, bureaucratic corruption, rural-urban migration, the development of the Ba'th Party, Syria's political isolation, religious resurgence, and the continued importance of sects in Syrian life. This book strikes a balance between examining the consequences of Syria's geographical and strategic position in international politics and the implications of its internal and highly complex ethnic and class structure and culture. It argues that the religious culture of Syria is as important as the leadership of Asad and, more generally, that an understanding of Syrian politics must be matched by an understanding of Syrian society and culture.

Table of Contents

Preface Donald Quataert Note on Transliteration Chronology Glossary Table: Syria: Area and Population Map: Distribution of Population in Syria, 1970 Map: Syria: Administrative Divisions Introduction. Ethnicity, Clientship, and Class: Their Changing Meaning Richard T. Antoun 1. Syrian Political Culture: A Historical Perspective Philip S. Khoury 2. Class and State in Ba'thist Syria Raymond A. Hinnebusch 3. The Alawis of Syria: Religious Ideology and Organization Fuad I. Khuri 4. Land Reform and Class Structure in Rural Syria Sulayman N. Khalaf 5. The Emancipation of Women in Contemporary Syrian Literature Salih J. Altoma 6. Asad: Between Institutions and Autocracy Patrick Seale 7. The Nature of the Soviet-Syrian Link under Asad and under Gorbachev Helena Cobban Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA13877937
• ISBN:
  • 0791407136
  • 0791407144
• LCCN: 90010251
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 165 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS92.3
  • DC20 : 956.91
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Syria -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA06830864