HIST 3830 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: French Mandate For Syria And The Lebanon, 1960 United States Census, Shia Islam

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The syrian mandate the french policy of "divide & rule": according to the 1960 census: Had their own theology that broke off. Another subsect of shi"ism with their own practices and scriptures. 1% jews: french rule would not cease until post-ww2, their involvement was highly colonial. Lebanon mandate: expanded the borders of the former ottoman administrative district, appointed a non-lebanese christian governor to rule with the cabinet made up of different representatives from different types of muslim and christian sects. This was lebanon was rule until ww1 post-war, the french mandate was set up where the map was redrawn. By expanding the lebanon borders to accompany pockets of muslims, the. French were most likely looking to create tensions between the new. Muslim populations and the existing giant christian population: lebanese parliament today is still run on a confessional system! Demography may change but the parliamentary system does not so if the demographics change radically, representation lags.

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