Research Catalog

Title

Age of coexistence : the ecumenical frame and the making of the modern Arab world / Ussama Makdisi.

Author

Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968-

Publication

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Description

xiii, 296 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Today's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist groups consumed by sectarian rage. Ussama Makdisi's Age of Coexistence reveals a hidden and hopeful story that counters this clichéd portrayal. It shows how a region rich with ethnic and religious diversity created a modern culture of coexistence amid Ottoman reformation, European colonialism, and the emergence of nationalism. Moving from the nineteenth century to the present, this groundbreaking book explores, without denial or equivocation, the politics of pluralism during the Ottoman Empire and in the post-Ottoman Arab world. Rather than judging the Arab world as a place of age-old sectarian animosities, Age of Coexistence describes the forging of a complex system of coexistence, what Makdisi calls the "ecumenical frame." He argues that new forms of antisectarian politics, and some of the most important examples of Muslim-Christian political collaboration, crystallized to make and define the modern Arab world. Despite massive challenges and setbacks, and despite the persistence of colonialism and authoritarianism, this framework for coexistence has endured for nearly a century. It is a reminder that religious diversity does not automatically lead to sectarianism. Instead, as Makdisi demonstrates, people of different faiths, but not necessarily of different political outlooks, have consistently tried to build modern societies that transcend religious and sectarian differences"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Cultural pluralism > Middle East > History
• Cultural pluralism
• Religious aspects of war
• Middle East > History > Religious aspects
• Middle East

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index.

Contents

Introduction : the ecumenical frame -- Religious difference in an imperial Age -- The crucible of sectarian violence -- Coexistence in an age of genocide -- Colonial pluralism -- Sectarianism and antisectarianism in the post-Ottoman Arab world -- Breaking the ecumenical frame : Arab and Jew in Palestine.

Call Number

JFE 19-12079

ISBN

• 9780520258884
• 0520258886

LCCN

2019016593

OCLC

1088320430

Author

Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968- author.

Title

Age of coexistence : the ecumenical frame and the making of the modern Arab world / Ussama Makdisi.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968- Age of coexistence. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520971745 (DLC) 2019021598

Research Call Number

JFE 19-12079