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Inventing Lebanon

其他書名	Lebanonism in the Poetry and Thought of Saïd Akl
出版	UMI Dissertation Services, 2004
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FsY8HQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"This study will attempt to trace the intellectual roots and development of a Lebanese nationalist current, which beginning in 1937 became known under the designation "Lebanonism". My dissertation's central argument maintains that: First, Lebanonism was a heteroclite amalgamation of a number of precursor Lebanese nationalist tendencies of the early 20 th century. However, unlike its precursors, which appealed primarily to Lebanon's Christian communities, Lebanonism, although non-Arabist in its themes and metaphors, targeted Lebanon's Muslims and attempted to lure them into assimilating and embracing a Lebanese national idea drained of their traditionally held Arabist convictions. Second, Lebanonism was conceived and expressed in an Arabophone garb, evidently at the behest of francophone Phoenicianists and Mediterraneanists, who were disgruntled with the way their revered Phoenician myth of origin was being expropriated and Arabized by "Araboid" currents within Lebanon. Third, contrary to its Phoenicianist progenitor, Lebanonism made an issue out of Lebanon's national language, and attempted to construct a Lebanese national specificity based on a purported authenticity of an indigenous non-Arabic Lebanese idiom, and not solely on the traditional Phoenicianist congenital Lebanese polyglotism--or even Phoenicianism's celebrated geographical determinism. Fourth, Lebanonism, although not traditionally associated with Lebanese Islam, did succeed in appealing to a number of Muslim Lebanese. In fact, many individual Lebanese Muslim scholars, linguists, historians, and literati did indeed espouse and promote general Lebanonist themes, and even contributed to its language reform program. Nevertheless, Lebanonism remained largely the domain of Christian devotion, and its appeal remained confined in a Christian Lebanese community still unwilling to acquiesce in Lebanon's newly contrived Arabness."--Publisher's description