ISBN: (13) 978-1-84097-180-4 Extent: 4 volumes, 2,400 pages Editor: B. Destani Published: 2007 Paper: Printed on acid free paper Binding: Library bindings with gilt finish |
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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Although the historical record covering the situations of diverse Muslim minorities within host Islamic countries is at best intermittent, the evidence found in these volumes provides a series of glimpses of conditions within different Arab states, over more than a century, and also addresses, to some extent, the status of the Palestinians remaining within Israel after 1948. The documents include evidence, from 1843 onwards, of tensions between settled and Bedouin tribes under Ottoman administration in Syria and Lebanon. From 1920 onwards the record is more varied, including: the effects of French actions in post-Ottoman Syria in the 1920s, with particular reference to British Indian Muslim subjects; the Shiah movement in Iraq from 1927, including tensions between the Baha’is and Shiahs during the 1920s and early 1930s; the disputes of the Yezidis and Muslims during the 1940s; minorities of the Levant in the 1940s, including the arrest of the Alawite leader, Suleiman Murshid, in 1944; the plight of the Palestinian refugees displaced by the hostilities following the end of the British mandate in 1948; and the status of the Shiah Iranians in Bahrain in the 1960s.
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