Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khāzin Sheikhs and the Maronite Church (1736-1840)

This book analyzes the relations between the Maronite notables and the Church in the context of socio-economic transformations in Mount Lebanon in the period 1736-1840. Special attention is given to the role of "waqf"s and the influences of the Vatican and the central provincial ottoman authorities.

About the author

Richard van Leeuwen, Ph.D. (1992), is a research-fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Institute of Near Eastern and Islamic Studies of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is currently working on a research project concerned with the practice of waqfs in Ottoman Damascus.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Leeuwen
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1994
• EAN: 9789004099784
• ISBN: 978-90-04-09978-4
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 246 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Ottoman Empire and Its Heritag
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design