Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist utopia to the Lebanese "revolution"
Analyses contentious politics in Tripoli, Lebanon's Sunni city, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups in governing the city.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2022
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Cambridge Middle East studies (69)
Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge Middle East studies
69 |
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| Summary: | Analyses contentious politics in Tripoli, Lebanon's Sunni city, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups in governing the city. Who Is Who in Tripoli? -- Timeline of Major Events -- Note on Arabic Transliteration -- Introduction: Tripoli, Secondary City of Lebanon -- The Geography of Modern-Day Tripoli -- Tripoli as a Microcosm of Ideological Movements -- Tripoli as a Secondary City -- City Corporatism in Divided Cities -- The Erosion of City Corporatism -- Broader Lessons from Tripoli -- Political Leaders as Communal Champions -- Sectarianization, Regionalism and Class in the Middle East -- 'Sunni Crisis' as State Crisis -- Notes on the Methodology -- Overview of the Book -- 1 Tripoli's City Corporatism and Identity Politics during the Nationalist Era (1920-1979) -- Tripoli's Economic Decline during the Late Ottoman Era (ca. 1700-1918) -- Tripoli as a City of Sunni Resistance during the Mandate Period (1920-1943) -- Tripoli's Refusal of the Lebanese State and the French Mandate (1920-1943) -- The National Pact (1943) and Beyond -- Tripoli's Protest Movements of the 1950s and 1960s -- Islam as a Counter-Culture: Bourgeois and Pro-Palestinian Islamists -- The Politicization of the Urban Poor and the Rise of Islamic Leftism in the 1970s -- The Beginning of Identity Politics in the 1970s -- The Origin of Lebanon's ʿAlawites -- The Political Awakening of ʿAlawites in Northern Lebanon in The Late 1960s and Early 1970s: The Syrian Model -- Increasing Tensions between Bab al-Tibbeneh and Jabal Mohsen -- The Syrian Intervention, Realignments, and New Wars -- Fighting between Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tibbeneh -- 2 Regional Proxy War: Radical Islamism (1982-1986) Alters Tripoli -- The Creation of the Tawhid Movement (1979-1982) -- The Impact on Sunni Lebanon of the Israeli Invasion -- Regional Support for Tawhid. |
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| ISBN: | 1009222791 |