Mount Lebanon and Greece: Mediterranean Crosscurrents, 1821–1841

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Historein Pub Date : 2022-01-07 DOI:10.12681/historein.24937
P. Hill
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This article uncovers the interactions between the Greek War of Independence and the Ottoman district of Mount Lebanon. Greek forces made corsairing raids on the Syria-Lebanon coast, sometimes leading Ottoman governors to retaliate against local Christians. A more substantial attempt was made to draw the district’s quasi-autonomous ruler, Emir Bashir al-Shihabi, into an alliance with the revolutionary Greeks, leading to a major Greek assault on Beirut in 1826, but this was unsuccessful. Underlying its failure, the article argues, was the persistence of an older pattern of elite negotiation across religious boundaries, which was resistant to the stark Christian-Muslim polarisation developed in parts of the Greek war. In the decades following this war, it then suggests, some sectarian polarisation and Christian nationalist aspirations reminiscent of Greece did emerge in Mount Lebanon, largely through Maronite Christians’ interactions with France. The goal of a monoreligious nation-state, however, never took root.
黎巴嫩山和希腊:地中海横流,1821-1841
本文揭示了希腊独立战争与奥斯曼帝国在黎巴嫩山区之间的互动关系。希腊军队对叙利亚-黎巴嫩海岸进行了突袭,有时导致奥斯曼帝国统治者对当地基督徒进行报复。更实质性的尝试是将该地区的准自治统治者埃米尔·巴希尔·希哈比拉入与革命希腊人的联盟,导致希腊在1826年对贝鲁特发动大规模进攻,但没有成功。文章认为,其失败的根本原因是精英们跨越宗教界限进行谈判的旧模式的持续存在,这种模式抵制了希腊战争部分时期形成的明显的基督教-穆斯林两极分化。这表明,在这场战争之后的几十年里,黎巴嫩山确实出现了一些宗派两极分化和让人想起希腊的基督教民族主义愿望,主要是通过马龙派基督徒与法国的互动。然而,单一宗教民族国家的目标从未生根。
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