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" Beirut - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Hanssen, Jens
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AL
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English
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1061000
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ALei1397
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Hanssen, Jens
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Beirut - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Hanssen, Jens
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(3,611 words)
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The city of Beirut , Lebanon, despite modern invocations of its antiquity and its spectacular urban growth after independence, is a product of a convergence of political, economic, and cultural forces of the nineteenth-century. “A beautiful ancient merchant city, it was one of the most important Syrian cities on the Roman coast. It rests on a nine-kilometre-long languet protruding into the Mediterranean Sea.” This is how in 1875 Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819–83), a leading figure in the nineteenth century nahḍa , the Arab Awakening, located his hometown on
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Islam.
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ALei1397.pdf
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