Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire

A History of the Fraternity and its Influence in Syria and the Levant

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ID19934948
EditorsDorothe Sommer
Year2015
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFreemasonry in the Ottoman Empire (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755607938
OpenAlexW4236395511
ISBN9780755607938
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDUHb3DwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received7

The network of freemasons and Masonic lodges in the Middle East is an opaque and mysterious one, and is all too often seen – within the area n as a vanguard for Western purposes of regional domination. But here, Dorothe Sommer explains how freemasonry in Greater Syria at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century actually developed a life of its own, promoting local and regional identities. She stresses that during the rule of the Ottoman Empire, freemasonry was actually one of the first institutions in what is now Syria and Lebanon which overcame religious and sectarian divisions. Indeed, the lodges attracted more participants n such as the members of the Trad and Yaziji Family, Khaireddeen Abdulwahab, Hassan Bayhum, Alexander Barroudi and Jurji Yanni – than any other society or fraternity

Ancient history · Archaeology · Empire · Fraternity · Geography · Middle East · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · Vanguard · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society

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