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The Clarion of Syria : a patriot's call against the civil war of 1860 /

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"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 civi...

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Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Hanssen, Jens (Translator), Safieddine, Hicham (Translator), Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968- (writer of foreword.), Bustānī, Buṭrus ibn Būlus, 1818 or 1819-1882 or 1883
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Arabic.
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Bustānī, Buṭrus ibn Būlus, > 1818 or 1819-1882 or 1883. > Nafīr Sūrīyah.
Bustānī, Buṭrus ibn Būlus, > 1818 or 1819-1882 or 1883.
Syria > History > 19th century.
Syrie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
History.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Syria.
1800-1899
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.