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  • 2 - Prototypes of Secularism in Lebanon

  • Mark Farha
  • Book:
    Lebanon
    Published online:
    05 August 2019
    Print publication:
    15 August 2019, pp 34-143

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 examines whether the sixteenth-century emirate of the cosmopolitan ruler Fakhr ad-Dīn II may have heralded the first premodern manifestation of a proto-secular, quasi-nationalist form of nondiscriminatory rule. The author follows a similar line of inquiry in plotting the trajectory of secularism in the subsequent period of the nineteenth-century emirate and the introduction of Napoléonic reform that was global in nature. To further underscore this point, a brief yet indicative comparison with the genesis of the Swiss confederation is adduced. The chapter ends with a review of the generation of nahda secularists in the nineteenth century, probing the reasons why their avant-garde ideas did not find a greater reception.