The Clarion of Syria a patriot's call against the civil war of 1860
"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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2019, [2019]©2017
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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