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The Druze-Maronite sectarian clash in the War of the Mountain (1983-1984): The resilience of mid-nineteenth century Maronite-Druze enmities in the Druze collective memory and its impact on the dynamics and consequences of Harb Al Jabal
In the midst of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1991), two of Lebanon's main confessional communities, the Druzes and the Maronites, clashed in Al Chouf region in the southern area of Mount Lebanon. This sectarian rivalry became known as: The Mountain War or Harb Al Jabal. This was not the first violen...
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2019
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| Summary: | In the midst of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1991), two of Lebanon's main confessional communities, the Druzes and the Maronites, clashed in Al Chouf region in the southern area of Mount Lebanon. This sectarian rivalry became known as: The Mountain War or Harb Al Jabal. This was not the first violent sectarian encounter between both communities who fought fiercely in the same geographical area in 1841 and 1860. When Harb Al Jabal occurred, the political leaderships of both communities deployed the discourse of the 1860 sectarian rivalries to fuel their communities to fight against each other. Most of the literature that covered the Mountain War placed it either in the wider context of the Lebanese civil war and its dynamics or reduced it to the prevalence of primordialism and the lack of modernity in Lebanon; relying on previous violent encounters between both groups in the mid-nineteenth century to justify this argument. This thesis attempts to unpack the Maronite-Druze inter-sectarian rivalries in the mid-nineteenth century to be able to understand how the specific history of the Druze-Maronite inter-sectarian relations in the mid-nineteenth century in Mount Lebanon, with a specific focus on their sectarian rivalries, could help in the understanding of the dynamics and consequences of the Mountain War. |
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