Urban notables and Arab nationalism : the politics of Damascus, 1860-1920
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Urban notables and Arab nationalism : the politics of Damascus, 1860-1920
（Cambridge Middle East library）
Cambridge University Press, 2003, c1983
1st pbk. ed
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Bibliography: p. 133-143
Includes index
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Description
No idea has captured the imagination or expressed the hopes of Arabs in the twentieth century as has Arab nationalism, and perhaps no subject has received so much attention from historians of the Middle East. But, while many historians have explored its intellectual sources, few have considered the social and political environment in which Arab nationalism evolved as an ideological movement. This study attempts to correct the imbalance and, in the process, provides a fascinating interpretation of the rise of the ideology of nationalism within the Arab world. The book focuses on the social and political life of the great notable families of Ottoman Damascus, who, before World War I, played a crucial part in translating the idea into political action. Dr Khoury explains how such long-term factors as the Ottoman reformation, European economic expansion and agrarian commercialization in Syria encouraged rival and socially differentiated networks of influential families to merge into a cohesive upper class. Under the umbrella of a reinvigorated Ottoman central authority, this class of landowners and bureaucrats produced a new urban leadership, which dominated local politics after 1860.
Table of Contents
- List of maps
- Note on transcription
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The political configuration of Damascus in 1860
- 2. The consolidation of leadership in Damascus after 1860
- 3. Damascus notables and the rise of Arab nationalism before World War I
- 4. Notables, nationalists and faysal's Arab government in Damascus, 1918-1920
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary of Arabic, Persian and Turkish terms
- Index.
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