Engin Deniz Akarli is Professor of History at Brown University.
"A masterful study of the last decades of Ottoman rule in Mount
Lebanon. . . . Akarli's work demonstrates conclusively that
the political history of the Arab lands under Ottoman rule should
not be approached without reference to Ottoman sources. The
author's fluency in Arabic enabled him to master the extensive
literature based on local sources, which he has interwoven
dexterously with his Ottoman material. What results is both the
definitive study of the Mutasarrifyya and a valuable case study of
administrative reforms initiating the process of state
formation."
*Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society*
"The book is meticulously researched and as rich in content as in
insights and altogether a most valuable addition to the historical
library on Lebanon."
*International Journal of Middle East Studies*
"The modern history of Lebanon, a Middle Eastern polity that has
experienced such a combination of tensions in our own time, merits
Engin Deniz Akarli's painstakingly researched contribution to our
understanding of Lebanon's earlier nineteenth-century experience
with these problems when it still was only a part, although a
rather distinctive one, of the Ottoman empire."
*American Historical Review*
"In this pioneering work, Engin Akarli utilizes the voluminous
records on Ottoman Lebanon to shed new light on the comparatively
long peace maintained there between the civil war of 1860 and the
establishment of the French Mandate in 1920."
*Third World Quarterly*
"A comprehensive study of a unique experience in state
formation not only in Lebanon but in the entire pre-World War I
Middle East. Akarli places the Ottoman administration in Lebanon
under a completely new light and points to new methodological
avenues for the study of Ottoman Arab provinces while illuminating
a neglected, but long and crucial chapter in Lebanese history."
*Turkish Studies Association Bulletin*
"Akarll's careful work in the Ottoman archives has enabled him to
present a genuinely new perspective on modern Lebanese history.
Furthermore, he points the way forward for other scholars to build
on his beginnings."
*Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies*
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