Table of Contents

Preface Donald Quataert Note on Transliteration Chronology Glossary Table: Syria: Area and Population Map: Distribution of Population in Syria, 1970 Map: Syria: Administrative Divisions Introduction. Ethnicity, Clientship, and Class: Their Changing Meaning Richard T. Antoun 1. Syrian Political Culture: A Historical Perspective Philip S. Khoury 2. Class and State in Ba'thist Syria Raymond A. Hinnebusch 3. The Alawis of Syria: Religious Ideology and Organization Fuad I. Khuri 4. Land Reform and Class Structure in Rural Syria Sulayman N. Khalaf 5. The Emancipation of Women in Contemporary Syrian Literature Salih J. Altoma 6. Asad: Between Institutions and Autocracy Patrick Seale 7. The Nature of the Soviet-Syrian Link under Asad and under Gorbachev Helena Cobban Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

About the Author

Richard T. Antoun is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Arab Village; Low-Key Politics, also published by SUNY Press; and Muslim Preacher in the Modern World. Donald Quataert is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Southwest Asia and North Africa Program at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire.

Reviews

"It focuses on the sociocultural bases of political culture in Syria. It offers a variety of insights into Syrian society that one cannot find in a single work on Syria." - Fauzi M. Najjar, Center of Integrative Studies, Michigan State University