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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Clarion of Syria
    sub title: a patriot's call against the civil war of 1860
  name:
    name part: Hanssen, Jens
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Safieddine, Hicham
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Makdisi, Ussama Samir
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 175 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: When Nafir Suriyya, "the Clarion of Syria," was penned between September 1860 and April 1861, its author Butrus al-Bustani, a major figure in the modern Arabic Renaissance, had witnessed his homeland undergo unprecedented violence in what many today consider Lebanon's first civil war. Written during Ottoman and European investigations into the causes and culprits of the atrocities, The Clarion of Syria is both a commentary on the politics of state intervention and social upheaval, and a set of visions for the future of Syrian society in the wake of conflict. This translation makes a key historical document accessible for the first time to an English audience. An introduction by the translators sketches the history that led up to the civil strife in Mt. Lebanon, outlines a brief biography of Butrus Al-Bustani, and provides an authoritative overview of the literary style and historiography of Nafir Suriyya. Rereading these pamphlets in the context of today's political violence, in war-torn Syria and elsewhere in the Arab world, helps us gain a critical and historical perspective on sectarianism, foreign invasions, conflict resolution, Western interventionism and nationalist tropes of reconciliation.
  table of contents: Introduction : translating civil war / Jens Hanssen and Hicham Safieddine -- part I. The Clarion of Syria : the context. The war of 1860 : roots and ramifications / Jens Hanssen and Hicham Safieddine. Al-Bustani : from protestant convert to Ottoman patriot and Arab reformer / Jens Hanssen and Hicham Safieddine. Nafir Suriyya in Arab historiography / Jens Hanssen. Towards a conceptual history of Nafir Suriyya / Jens Hanssen. Wataniyya as anti-dote to sectarianism / Jens Hanssen -- part II. The Clarion of Syria : the text / translated by Jens Hanssen and Hicham Safieddine.
  note: Butrus Al-Bustani ; introduced and translated by Jens Hanssen and Hicham Safieddine ; foreword by Ussama Makdisi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-sy---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bustānī, Buṭrus ibn Būlus
      name part: 1818 or 1819-1882 or 1883
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bustānī, Buṭrus ibn Būlus
      name part: 1818 or 1819-1882 or 1883
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: PN5449.L42 B87 2019
  classification: 079.5691
  identifier: 9780520299436
  identifier: 0520299434
  identifier: 9780520971158
  identifier: 2018048201
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181009
    record change date: 20191021075317.0
    record identifier: in00004071546