Lebanon - A Country Study

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COUNTRY PROFILE GEOGRAPHY SOCIETY ECONOMY TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS NATIONAL SECURITY INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. Historical Setting ANCIENT TIMES Assyrian Rule Babylonian Rule and the Persian Empire Rule of Alexander the Great The Seleucid Dynasty THE ARAB PERIOD The Umayyads, 660-750 The Abbasids, 750-1258 The Crusades, 1095-1291 The Mamluks, 1282-1516 OTTOMAN RULE, 1516-1916 The Maans, 1120-1697 The Shihabs, 1697-1842 Religious Conflicts WORLD WAR I AND THE FRENCH MANDATE, 1914-41 The Mandate Period World War II and Independence, 1939-41 INDEPENDENT LEBANON, 1943-76 The Khuri Era, 1943-52 The Shamun Era, 1952-58 The Rise of Shihabism, 1958-64 The Hilu Era, 1964-70 The Franjiyah Era, 1970-76 The Civil War, 1975-76 The Sarkis Administration, 1976-82 CHAPTER 2. The Society and Its Environment GEOGRAPHY Land Climate Rivers and Lakes POPULATION Migration The War and Displacement in Beirut The Palestinian Element SECTARIANISM Lebanese Confessional "Societies" Sectarian and Clan Consciousness RELIGION Tenets of Islam Muslim Sects Twelver or Imami Shias Ismailis Alawis Druzes Christian Sects Greek Catholics Roman Catholics Greek Orthodox Jacobites Armenian Orthodox or Gregorian Assyrian or Nestorian Church Jews Others Arabic Other Languages STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY The Family Sex Roles Marriage Child-Rearing Practices Impact of War on the Family LIVING CONDITIONS

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