Writing the History of Mount Lebanon
Writing the History of Mount Lebanon
Church Historians and Maronite Identity
Hojairi, Mouannes
American University in Cairo Press
10/2021
240
Dura
Inglês
9781649031259
15 a 20 dias
Turning Points in Historiographical Debates
Historiography and the Nationalist Discourse
Maronite Identity Past and Present
1. Lebanon, the Mountain Refuge
Maronite Church Historians: Origins and Development
of Clerical Historiography
Histories of Syria and Lebanon: Lay Historiography and
the Persistence of a Tradition
Revisionist Historiography: The Debate over the Mountain
Refuge Theory
From Idea to Hypothesis: The Mountain Refuge in the
Histories of Today
2. The Mardaites: The Church-Adopted Myth of Origin
The Mardaites in History and Historiography
Roots of the Mardaite Myth
The Debate among Clerical Historians
Clerical Resistance
3. Integration into Roman Catholicism: The Quest for Orthodoxy
The Birth of the Maronite Church
Contested Claims about the History of the Maronite Church
The Roots of Authority
Chain of Transmission
Redeployment and Regeneration of Authoritativeness
Facticity within a Self-Sufficient Tradition
Selectiveness and Interpretation
Conclusion
4. Moments of Change in History and Historiography
Rome Reaches Out
Political Order in the Time of the Imarah
The Maronite Church as a New Source of Leadership
Regional Politics and Foreign Intervention
The Tanzimat Reforms and Integration into the
World Economy
The Moment of Change: 1860
The Mutasarrifiya
The Emerging Historiography
5. The Phoenician Hypothesis: Secular Historiography and Greater Lebanon's Pre-Christian Past
Ancient Phoenicia: The People, Geography, and History
Archaeology and the Discovery of Phoenicia
Historical Evolution and Variations on the Hypothesis
Golden Age and National Rebirth
The Emergence of the Modern Lebanese State
Phoenicia in Early Twentieth-Century Historiography
Relation between Lay and Clerical Historiographies
Phoenicia in Contemporary Historiography
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Turning Points in Historiographical Debates
Historiography and the Nationalist Discourse
Maronite Identity Past and Present
1. Lebanon, the Mountain Refuge
Maronite Church Historians: Origins and Development
of Clerical Historiography
Histories of Syria and Lebanon: Lay Historiography and
the Persistence of a Tradition
Revisionist Historiography: The Debate over the Mountain
Refuge Theory
From Idea to Hypothesis: The Mountain Refuge in the
Histories of Today
2. The Mardaites: The Church-Adopted Myth of Origin
The Mardaites in History and Historiography
Roots of the Mardaite Myth
The Debate among Clerical Historians
Clerical Resistance
3. Integration into Roman Catholicism: The Quest for Orthodoxy
The Birth of the Maronite Church
Contested Claims about the History of the Maronite Church
The Roots of Authority
Chain of Transmission
Redeployment and Regeneration of Authoritativeness
Facticity within a Self-Sufficient Tradition
Selectiveness and Interpretation
Conclusion
4. Moments of Change in History and Historiography
Rome Reaches Out
Political Order in the Time of the Imarah
The Maronite Church as a New Source of Leadership
Regional Politics and Foreign Intervention
The Tanzimat Reforms and Integration into the
World Economy
The Moment of Change: 1860
The Mutasarrifiya
The Emerging Historiography
5. The Phoenician Hypothesis: Secular Historiography and Greater Lebanon's Pre-Christian Past
Ancient Phoenicia: The People, Geography, and History
Archaeology and the Discovery of Phoenicia
Historical Evolution and Variations on the Hypothesis
Golden Age and National Rebirth
The Emergence of the Modern Lebanese State
Phoenicia in Early Twentieth-Century Historiography
Relation between Lay and Clerical Historiographies
Phoenicia in Contemporary Historiography
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index