Past and Present in Local Histories of the Ottoman Period from Syria and Lebanon
Author(s)
Reily, James A.
Abstract
A study of seven local urban histories written by Syrians and Lebanese whose work has been directed at a local audience. The works mainly deal with inter-group relations, social history, and state-society relations. All of these works on urban society in Ottoman Syria and Lebanon acknowledge its functional division into different religious communities but religion does not dominate the studies. Local history is used to address questions of community, identity, and political organization that remain unresolved in present-day Syria and Lebanon.
