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" Jabal ʿĀmil: "
Abidor, Pascal Missak
Abisaab, Rula
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1109098
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TLpq2470262734
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Abidor, Pascal Missak
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Abisaab, Rula
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Jabal ʿĀmil:\ Abidor, Pascal MissakAbisaab, Rula
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McGill University (Canada)
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2019
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2019
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Ph.D.
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354
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Where is Jabal ʿĀmil? What is Jabal ʿĀmil? Though today Jabal ʿĀmil is widely considered to be the folk name for what is now called "South Lebanon," this dissertation answers these questions by examining the history of the idea of Jabal ʿĀmil as an instance of the production of space in an Islamicate context. To examine how Jabal ʿĀmil was produced as a space by various authors operating within and outside of a self-identifying ʿĀmilī-Shiʿi historiography, the period under consideration spans the dawn of Islam through to the nineteenth century. This analysis begins by looking at the first associations of the Banū ʿĀmila, Jabal ʿĀmil's eponym, with al-Shām (Greater Syria) as mentioned in Prophetic hadith and traces the gradual development of Jabal ʿĀmila as an increasingly complex geographic object that is connected to a Shiʿi community within diverse genres of Arabic-Islamic historiography. The study then focuses on the production of Jabal ʿĀmil as a space from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Three texts by different authors from Jabal ʿĀmil, a biographical dictionary, a list of the region's villages, and a fragment chronicle, are examined for the different ways they portrayed Jabal ʿĀmil and the underlying logics of those portrayals. The examination of different iterations of Jabal ʿĀmil reveals that the region was not merely portrayed differently by various authors but possesses multiple modes of existence. This ontologolically pluralistic approach also reveals the existence of an alternative spatial conceptualization of the region: Bilād al-Matāwila, named after the Matāwila, the Ottoman era name for the Shiʿa of western al-Shām who engaged in politics and political conflicts.
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Islamic studies
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