Contents

• Preliminary Materials / C. Schumann -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Question Of American Liberalism And The Origins Of The American Board Mission To The Levant And Its Historiography / Ussama Makdisi -- Chapter Two. The Mandate System: High Ideals, Illiberal Practices / Peter Sluglett -- Chapter Three. “Liberal Colonialism” And Martial Law In French Mandate Syria / Michael Provence -- Chapter Four. The Syrian University And The French Mandate (1920–1946) / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- Chapter Five. Liberal Education At The American University Of Beirut (Aub): Protest, Protestantism, And The Meaning Of Freedom / Betty S. Anderson -- Chapter Six. The Ottoman Revolution Of 1908 As Seen By Al-Hilāl And Al-Manār: The Triumph And Diversification Of The Reformist Spirit / Anne-Laure Dupont -- Chapter Seven. The Nahḍa Revisited: Socialism And Radicalism In Beirut And Mount Lebanon, 1900 1914 / Ilham Khuri-Makdisi -- Chapter Eight. Liberal Practices In The Transformation From Empire To Nation-State: The Rump Ottoman Empire, 1918–1923 / Hasan Kayal -- Chapter Nine. Writing A Constitution: Constitutional Debates In Syria In The Mandate Period / Eyal Zisser -- Chapter Ten. Lebanese Arab Nationalists And Consociational Democracy During The French Mandate Period / Raghid K. El-Solh -- Chapter Eleven. Within Or Without? Ameen Rihani And The Transcultural Space Between The “West” And The “East” -- Chapter Twelve. Who Gets To Become The Liberal Subject? Ventriloquized Memoirs And The Individual In 1920's Egypt / Marilyn Booth -- Chapter Thirteen. Illiberal Metamorphoses Of A Liberal Discourse: The Case Of Syrian Intellectual Sami Al-Kayyali (1898–1972) / Manfred Sing -- List Of Contributors / Index Of Political Terms / Index Of Institutions, Organizations, And Periodicals / Index Of Personal Names / C. Schumann

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