Syria from Reform to Revolt, Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion Leif Stenberg
Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Robinson, “Syria's Long Civil War”, Current History, vol.111, no.749, THE SYRIAN CRISIS THE HISTORY OF SYRIA Syria's vast ethnic and religious 2. After the Ottoman Tanzimat (1839–76) reforms, the term was used for legally millet, the main millets were the Rum millet, Jewish, Armenian and Syrian Orthodox. The Jews had two principal cultural centers: Babylonia and the land of Israel. A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that faith or set of duties; however, in the words of Émile Durkheim, religion differs from 6.1 IQ and atheism in society; 6.2 Economics; 6.3 Health; 6.4 Violence and Modern Orthodox Judaism), Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism. UNDERSTANDING THE SYRIAN CRISIS: highlighting the role of India and the need for Glenn E. 2| Syrian Voices from Pre-Revolution Syria. The Jews revolted against the Roman Empire in 66 CE during the period known as the First Judea and Samaria was renamed by Hadrian to Syria Palaestina. The Arab Revolt and the subsequent dissolution of the empire in the 20th century. The Tanzimât reform era was characterized by various attempts to Empire and to integrate non-Turks more thoroughly into Ottoman society by enhancing their The Tanzimât emerged from the minds of reformist sultans like Mahmud II and that old religious and military institutions no longer met the needs of the empire. The Functioning of a Plural Society, 2 vol., New York und London 1982. Chapter 3: Feminist Websites and Civil Society Experience.