Syria and the French Mandate

Why did Syrian political life continue to be dominated by a particular urban elite even after the dramatic changes following the end of four hundred years of Ottoman rule and the imposition of French control? Philip Khoury's comprehensive work discusses this and other questions in the framework of two related conflicts--one between France and the Syrian nationalists, and the other between liberal and radical nationalism. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

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• Beyond Sectarianism

  Open Access•Anna Filipi•Ethnopolitics•2026

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• Self-Determination and Use of Force in Rojava

  Open Access•Loqman Radpey•Journal of Human Rights and…•2021

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• Transnationalism and the Syrian Migrant Community

  Open Access•Reem Bailony•Mashriq & Mahjar Journal of…•2017

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• Unsheathing Poet’s Sword Again

  Open Access•Олег Соколов•Vestnik of Saint Petersburg…•2022

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• Syria's State Bourgeoisie

  Bassam Haddad•Middle East Critique•2012

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• Between Nationalism and Feminism

  Charlotte Weber•Journal of Middle East Women s…•2008

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• Genealogies of Baʿthism

  Open Access•Max Wei•Modern Intellectual History•2019

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• The Nation‐State Form and the Emergence of ‘Minorities' in Syria

  Open Access•Benjamin Thomas White, Benjamin White•Studies in Ethnicity and…•2007

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• Reconstructing narratives

  Open Access•Nour Allah Munawar•Journal of Social Archaeology•2022

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• Border Settlement Dynamics and Border Status Quo

  Laçin Idil Öztığ, Mehmet Akif Okur•Geopolitics•2023

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• El Discurso Sionista-Costarricense Sobre El Derecho De Propiedad Y El Asentamiento Judío en Palestina (1943-1945)

  Open Access•Ricardo A Pérez-Navarro•Diálogos Revista Electrónica•2022

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• Democracy in Algeria

  Frédéric Volpi•The Journal of North African…•2000

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• Journey Down a Blind Alley … or is it Love that is Blind

  Lia Moran•British Journal of Middle Eastern…•2002

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• Minority politics and the social construction of hierarchy

  Open Access•Yakub Halabi•Nations and Nationalism•2018

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• From Camel to Truck

  Mehdi Sakatni•Comparative Studies of South Asia…•2019

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• Bread, Freedom, Independence

  Götz Nordbruch•Comparative Studies of South Asia…•2008

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• Networks of Knowledge Production

  Heike Liebau•Comparative Studies of South Asia…•2020

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• Selective Amnesia

  Noriko Sato•Identities•2005

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• Towards theorizing from the Arab non-periphery

  Open Access•Asmaa Elgamal•Security Dialogue•2024

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• Strong powers in small wars

  Gil Merom•Small Wars and Insurgencies•1998

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• The Great Depression (1873-1896) and the Rise of Syrian Arab Nationalism

  Linda Schatkowski Schilcher•New Perspectives on Turkey•1991

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• The Founding of Damascus University 1903-1936

  Open Access•Sami Moubayed•Journal of Arabic and Islamic…•2019

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• Engendering Critique

  Rebecca Ruth Gould, Rebecca Gould•Women's studies quarterly•2014

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• Divisive decolonization

  Martin Thomas•The Journal of Imperial &…•2000

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• Nationalism, displacement, and ethnoreligious differentiation in Turkey’s southern borderlands

  Open Access•Seçil Dağtaș•Dialectical Anthropology•2018

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• Class, political power, and nationalism in Syria

  Open Access•J Viger•Dialectical Anthropology•2018

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• The Palestinian cause in Syrian nationalism

  Open Access•F M Totah•Dialectical Anthropology•2018

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• The Eighteenth Brumaire in historical context

  Open Access•J Viger•Theory and Society•2019

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• Two September Weeks That Saved Damascus in 1918

  Open Access•Sami Moubayed, Sami Moubayed Sami Moubayed•Arab Studies Quarterly•2015

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• Re-enacting the international order, or

  Open Access•Janis Grzybowski•Review of International Studies•2021

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• La creación de un ámbito público transnacional (primera parte)

  Open Access•Camila Pastor De Maria Campos•Estudios de Asia y África•2012

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• Kurdistan on the Sèvres Centenary

  Open Access•Loqman Radpey•Nationalities Papers•2022

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• The Avenantaires

  N E Bou-Nacklie, N E Bou‐Nacklie•Middle Eastern Studies•1991

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• Sa'id Hawwa

  Itzchak Weismann•Middle Eastern Studies•1993

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• Syria and state department 1937–47

  James A Melki•Middle Eastern Studies•1997

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• Active and Passive Citizenship in the Arab World

  Roel Meijer•The Middle East Journal•2019

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• Mediterranean Futures

  Joseph John Viscomi•The Journal of Modern History•2019

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• Les Troupes Spéciales

  N E Bou-Nacklie•International Journal Middle East…•1993

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• There and Back Again

  Open Access•Jonathan H Shannon•International Journal Middle East…•2016

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• Creating Phantoms”

  Open Access•Keith David Watenpaugh•International Journal Middle East…•1996

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• The Great Depression and the Making of Turkish-Syrian Border, 1921–1939

  Open Access•Ramazan Hakkı Öztan•International Journal Middle East…•2020

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• The Long and Intricate Funeral of Yasin Al-Hashimi

  Open Access•Peter Wien•International Journal Middle East…•2011

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• The Social Origins of Popular Nationalism in Syria

  Open Access•James L Gelvin•International Journal Middle East…•1994

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• Ottoman Modernity, Colonialism, and Insurgency in the Interwar Arab East

  Open Access•Michael Provence•International Journal Middle East…•2011

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• Turbulent from the Start

  Open Access•Hicham Bou Nassif•International Journal Middle East…•2020

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• The emerging Islamic State

  Open Access•Y Jabareen•Geoforum•2014

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• Failing to Stem the Tide

  Open Access•Andrew Arsan, Andrew Kerim Arsan•Comparative Studies in Society…•2011

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• Movilización y modernidad en el Medio Oriente

  Open Access•Camila Pastor De Maria Campos•Estudios de Asia y África•2015

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• Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East

  Jordi Tejel•Rethinking State and Border…•2023

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• The Cambridge History of the Kurds

  Open Access•Hamit Bozarslan, Cengiz Gunes et al.•Cambridge History of the Kurds•2021

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• Nationalism, Historical Aspects of

  Open Access•Gudrun Krämer•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

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• Rereading Travellers to the East

  Open Access•Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti et al.•Rereading Travellers to the East•2022

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• Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere

  Open Access•S R Goldstein-Sabbah, H L Murre-van den Berg•Modernity, Minority, and the…•2016

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• 'The House of the Priest'

  Open Access•Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif et al.•‘The House of the Priest’•2022

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• France and its colonial civil wars, 1940–1945

  Open Access•Martin Thomas•Cambridge History of the Second…•2015

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• Barbarians at the British Museum

  Open Access•Katherine Cross•Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity•2020

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• The History of Kurdish and the Development of Literary Kurmanji

  Open Access•Ergin Öpengin•Cambridge History of the Kurds•2021

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• The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

  Open Access•Dara Conduit•The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria•2019

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• Writing the Art, Archaeology and Religion of the Roman Mediterranean

  Open Access•Philippa Adrych, Dominic Dalglish•Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity•2020

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• Mystery Cult and Material Culture in the Graeco-Roman World

  Open Access•Philippa Adrych, Dominic Dalglish•Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity•2020

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• Connecting Art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian Studies

  Open Access•Rachel Wood•Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity•2020

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• The Viennese Invention of Late Antiquity

  Open Access•Jaś Elsner•Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity•2020

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• Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity

  Open Access•Jaś Elsner•Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity•2020

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• Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism

  Open Access•Adria Lawrence, Adria K Lawrence•Imperial Rule and the Politics of…•2013

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• Religious regimes and prospects for liberal politics

  Open Access•Mansoor Moaddel•Futures•2010

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• V-Dem Country Coding Units V8

  Open Access•Michael Coppedge, John Gerring et al.•SSRN Electronic Journal•2018

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• United We Stand?

  Aaron Belkin•United We Stand?•2005

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• War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East

  Steven Heydemann•War, Institutions, and Social…•2000

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• The emergence of the Arab state system reconsidered

  Elie Podeh•Diplomacy and Statecraft•1998

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• Imperial backwater or strategic outpost? The British takeover of Vicky Madagascar, 1942

  Open Access•Martin Thomas•The Historical Journal•1996

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• God's Property

  Open Access•Nada Moumtaz•God's Property•2021

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• The Retention of Arabic Language as a National Identity in Two of Gadah as-Samman’s Novels

  Open Access•Mahmudah Mahmudah, Sangidu Sangidu et al.•Humanities & Social Sciences…•2020

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• Suriye Merkezli Dinî Yayınlarda Hadis/ Sünnet Perspektifi

  Open Access•Tuğba Altuncu•Dini Araştırmalar•2025

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• Youth, the “Arab Spring,” and Social Movements

  Open Access•Charles W Anderson•Review of Middle East Studies•2013

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• Contesting the Colonial Narrative’s Claims to Progress

  Open Access•Elizabeth Williams•Review of Middle East Studies•2010

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• Movilización y modernidad en el Medio Oriente

  Open Access•Camila Pastor De Maria Campos•Estudios de Asia y África•2015

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• Involuntary history

  Open Access•Toufoul Abou‐Hodeib, Toufoul Abou-Hodeib•Contemporary Levant•2020

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• So that we can safeguard your lives’

  Open Access•Joel Veldkamp•Contemporary Levant•2024

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• The Levant mandates and Charles de Gaulle’s provisional government

  Rachel Chin•European Review of History Revue…•2018

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• Antakya at the crossroads of Europe

  Levent Duman, José Rafael Medeiros Coelho•The History of the Family•2025

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• Un exemple de minorité au Levant à la fin de l'Empire ottoman

  Open Access•Jérôme Bocquet•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2005

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• Refugees, Labour and Sectarianism in Syria under the French mandate (1921-1950)

  Open Access•Seda Altuğ•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2024

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• La presse de Syrie et du Liban entre les deux guerres (1918-1939)

  Open Access•Nadine Méouchy•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2002

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• Colonial Corporatism in the French Mandated States

  Open Access•Geoffrey D Schad•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2005

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• Political Participation of Islamists in Syria

  Dara Conduit•Islam and Christian–Muslim…•2018

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• Challenging Eurocentric narratives

  Düriye İlkim BUKE OKYAR, Mine Nur Küçük•Cambridge Review of International…•2025

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• Refugees and the Definition of Syria, 1920-1939

  Benjamin Thomas White•Past & Present•2017

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• Imperial Defence or Diversionary Attack? Anglo-French Strategic Planning in the Near East, 1936–40

  Open Access•Martin Thomas•Anglo-French Defence Relations…•2002

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• Occupying Syria under the French Mandate

  Open Access•Daniel Neep•Occupying Syria under the French…•2012

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• Fluchtmigration aus Syrien

  Open Access•Arne Worm•Fluchtmigration aus Syrien - Eine…•2019

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• Deadly Connections

  Open Access•Daniel Byman•Deadly Connections•2005

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• Histories of city and state in the Persian Gulf

  Open Access•Nelida Fuccaro•Histories of City and State in…•2012

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• The Effects of the Military Tradition on Lebanon's Assertive Druzes

  Open Access•Judith Palmer Harik•International Sociology•1995

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• What's in a Link

  Lori A Allen, Lori Allen•South Atlantic Quarterly•2018

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• The Bata Company's eastern Mediterranean business operations 1918–1938

  Milan Balabán, Jan Herman et al.•Contemporary Levant•2025

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• Nationalism and aggression

  Open Access•L Greenfeld, Daniel Chirot•Theory and Society•1994

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• Colonial capitalism, boundary demarcation and imperial placemaking in South Arabia

  Charles A Sills•Third World Quarterly•2021

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• The colonial origins of ethnic warfare

  Open Access•Matthew Lange, Tay Jeong et al.•International Journal of…•2021

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• Arab Responses to Western Hegemony

  Open Access•Elizabeth Nugent, Elizabeth R Nugent et al.•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2016

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• Classes in transition

  Open Access•Johannes Becker, Arne Worm•Current Sociology•2026

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