At the outset of the 21st century, perhaps the most interesting feature of the Levant (in Arabic, Bilad al-Sham), in the midst of an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim Arab world, is the command of the entire coastal zone from Cilicia south to Sinai either by non-Arabs or by Arabs who are not Sunni Muslims...

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1. Verfasser:	Harris, William Wilson (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Princeton, NJ Wiener 2015
Ausgabe:	4. ed., completely revised and expanded
Schriftenreihe:	Princeton series on the Middle East
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Middle East / History Naher Osten Levante
Zusammenfassung:	At the outset of the 21st century, perhaps the most interesting feature of the Levant (in Arabic, Bilad al-Sham), in the midst of an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim Arab world, is the command of the entire coastal zone from Cilicia south to Sinai either by non-Arabs or by Arabs who are not Sunni Muslims. The reality overshadows the Levantine interior. In the central Levant the mountain has come to town with the Alawi political ascendance in Damascus in the south, Israeli military and economic power dominates the Palestinians and Jordanians. The transformation in less than a century is remarkable
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index The strategic geography of the Levant. Vulnerable frontiers ; Strategic plot ; Internal fragmentation ; Population growth, limited resources, compressed space ; Panorama: from the Romans to the Ottomans -- Rome, Islam, and Byzantium. The Roman Levant ; Umayyads and 'Abbasids ; The Byzantine-Fatimid standoff ; Seljuk Turkish intervention -;Conclusion -- Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottomans. Crusaders and Muslims ; Mamluk supremacy ; The Ottoman Levant ; Conclusion ; The Jews of the Levant from the Islamic conquest to Zionism -- The modern Levant. Overview, 1918-2002 ; Israel, the Palestinians, and the Arabs ; The Arab Levant states ; Turkey in the Levant: the new Byzantium? -- Syrian conflagration, 2011-2014. Contours of catastrophe ; Responsibility ; Evolution of the crisis ; Dilemmas for Turkey and Lebanon ; The southern Levant ; On the horizon
Beschreibung:	xiv, 244 p. maps 23 cm
ISBN:	9781558766037 9781558766020