The Druzes in the Jewish state : : a brief history / / Kais M. Firro.
Following the war of 1948 Palestine's Druzes became part of the state of Israel. Overwhelmingly rural, they sought to safeguard their community's age-old ethnic independence by holding on to their traditional ethno-religious particularism. Ethnicity and ethnic issues, however, were ready t...
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| Superior document: | Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 64 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Kais M. Firro
- Acknowledgments / Kais M. Firro
- List of Tables / Kais M. Firro
- List of Maps / Kais M. Firro
- Note on Tansliteration / Kais M. Firro
- Introduction / Kais M. Firro
- Chapter One Whence the Druzes? / Kais M. Firro
- Chapter Two Particularism Revisited / Kais M. Firro
- Chapter Three Toward Symbiosis: Traditional Elites and Official Policy / Kais M. Firro
- Chapter Four Plowshares into Swords / Kais M. Firro
- Chapter Five "Integration": Promises and Protests / Kais M. Firro
- Chapter Six By Way of Conclusion: When Elites, Economy and Education Come Together / Kais M. Firro
- Bibliography / Kais M. Firro
- Index / Kais M. Firro
- Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia / Kais M. Firro.