Talk:History of Lebanon under Ottoman rule

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Shihabs converted to Christianity?[edit]

The lead currently says:

The Ottomans, through the Maans, a great Druze feudal family, and the Shihabs, a Sunni Muslim family that had converted to Christianity

However, the Shihabs in fact converted from Christianity to Islam. Is this a result of some vandal edit or am I missing something?GreyShark (dibra) 06:09, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography[edit]

I would like to use the following sources to improve the article. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!

Fitzgerald, T. J. (2001). The Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830-1861. Ussama Makdisi, Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Lebanon. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. Holt, P. M. (1966). Egypt and the Fertile Crescent (pp. 115-20). Longmans. Harris, W., & Harris, W. W. (2014). Lebanon: A history, 600-2011. Oxford University Press. Traboulsi, F. (2012). A history of modern Lebanon. Pluto Press. Harik, I. F. (2017). Politics and change in a traditional society: Lebanon 1711-1845 (Vol. 4985). Princeton University Press. Anderson, Betty S. (2020). SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS: Workers and Nationalists in Egypt, Mount Lebanon, and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century. In A History of the Modern Middle East (pp. 107-154). Redwood City: Stanford University Press.

MLPQG (talk) 09:27, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deeb as a source[edit]

One source is not enough for such a huge claim as the foundation of Lebanon (in the eighteenth century no less). This is not to mention a one-sided nationalistic polemic like Marius Deeb's "Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah: The Unholy Alliance and Its War on Lebanon". You need a lot more substantiation than that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7081:5D07:E706:E90E:1505:7C87:500 (talk) 23:31, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New changes[edit]

Hi everyone,

I made the following changes to the text:

New section: Ottoman rule
Change section title: Ottoman conquest
Updated lead section to include the major sections
Updated text so that the points of the lead section were also present in the text
Changed title Religious conflicts -> Sectarian conflict
Added text on sectarian conflict, mainly the backing of European powers, their relations with communities in Mount Lebanon, and the partitioning of Mount Lebanon
Added text on Bashir II on his communal background
Added text to Lebanon under Egyptian occupation
Paraphrased text in sectarian conflict
Paraphrased sentence in World War I and the French Mandate
Restructured the page (new subtitles, shifting paragraphs)
Added sources to existing text and new text
Moved foreign intervention, so people first read about the events and then the intervention
Small changes in text (readability)
Marked text that needed citations and subsequently added sources to the text

There is still a lot of room for improvement, debates on Mount Lebanon, in-depth information on local dimensions, sections that are empty, and paragraphs that need citations. MLPQG (talk) 08:47, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]