The Damascus Events – The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
General:
Name: The Damascus Events – The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
Format: epub
Size: 14.37 MB
Book:
Title: The Damascus Events
Author: Eugene Rogan
Language: English
Year: 2024
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9781802063202
Total pages: 272 str.
Description:
An award-winning scholar’s account of an ancient city’s descent into unprecedented communal violence-an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East
On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, violence raged, leaving five thousand Christians dead, thousands of shops looted, and churches, houses, and monasteries razed. The sudden and ferocious outbreak shocked the world, leaving Syrian Christians vulnerable and fearing renewed violence.Drawn from never-before-seen eyewitness accounts of the Damascus Events, eminent Middle East historian Eugene Rogan tells the story of how a peaceful multicultural city came to be engulfed in slaughter. He traces how rising tensions between Muslim and Christian communities led some to regard extermination as a reasonable solution. Rogan also narrates the wake of this disaster, and how…
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