Author
Al-Tilal, Iman Abdullah Al-Tahami Muhammad
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 2536-9504
Record ID
cdi_almandumah_primary_942847
Library Location
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
Notes
The research briefly reviews the conditions of Tripoli of the Levant during the Ottoman era, especially the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries AD. This city is the second most densely populated city with Christians after Beirut. Christians in Tripoli are divided into a Greek Orthodox majority, and minorities of Maronites, Armenians, and Syriacs. The Christian sects lived within the context of the Ottoman millet system, and each sect had its own religious specificity and societal uniqueness. The Greek Orthodox had four churches and the Maronites had four churches, in addition to their own endowments. On the economic level, Christians practiced all financial, craft, and professional activities, and engaged in the field of administrative and diplomatic functions, especially the position of translations and consuls of foreign countries in the Ottoman Tripoli of the Levant. On the social level, Christians were divided into four classes: the notables, the middle class of artisans, professionals, clergy, and the common people. The community was linked by intimate relations among themselves, and between them and the Muslims. Christians have resorted to the Sharia Court in Tripoli, Syria, because it applies complete justice. The Christian community was not characterized by sectarianism in Tripoli, the Levant, but public interest trumped religious fanaticism.
Görüntüle
Majallat buḥūth al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ fī al-ʻulūm al-insānīyah wa-al-adabīyah, 2018 (47), p.120-156
