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Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia (S.E.P.S.M.E.A.) SEPS-93-meouchy.qxd 10/20/2003 11:03 AM Page i THE BRITISH AND FRENCH MANDATES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES / LES MANDATS FRANÇAIS ET ANGLAIS DANS UNE PERSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE SEPS-93-meouchy.qxd 10/20/2003 11:03 AM Page ii SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STUDIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA (S.E.P.S.M.E.A.) (Founding editor: C.A.O. van Nieuwenhuijze) Editor REINHARD SCHULZE Advisory Board Dale Eickelman (Dartmouth College) Roger Owen (Harvard University) Judith Tucker (Georgetown University) Yann Richard (Sorbonne Nouvelle) VOLUME 93 SEPS-93-meouchy.qxd 10/20/2003 11:03 AM Page iii THE BRITISH AND FRENCH MANDATES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES / LES MANDATS FRANÇAIS ET ANGLAIS DANS UNE PERSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE EDITED BY / EDITÉ PAR NADINE MÉOUCHY and/et PETER SLUGLETT WITH/AVEC LA COLLABORATION AMICALE DE GÉRARD KHOURY and/et GEOFFREY SCHAD BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2004 SEPS-93-meouchy.qxd 10/20/2003 11:03 AM Page iv This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The British and French mandates in comparative perspectives / edited by Nadine Méouchy and Peter Sluglett ; with Gérard Khoury and Geoffrey Schad = Les mandats français et anglais dans une perspective comparative / édité par Nadine Méouchy et Peter Sluglett ; avec la collaboration amicale de Gérard Khoury et Geoffrey Schad. p. cm. — (Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, ISSN 1385-3376 ; v. 93) Proceedings of a conference held in Aix-en-Provence, June 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 90-04-13313-5 (alk. paper) 1. Mandates—Congresses. 2. Mandates—Middle East—Congresses. 3. France—Colonies—Administration—Congresses. 4. Great Britain—Colonies—Administration—Congresses. 5. Elite (Social sciences)—Congresses. 6. Nationalism—Middle East—Congresses. I. Title: Mandats français et anglais dans une perspective comparative. II. Méouchy, Nadine. III. Sluglett, Peter. IV. Series. D650.B75 2003 956.903—dc22 2003065220 ISSN 1385-3376 ISBN 90 04 13313 5 © Copyright 2004 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands MEOUCHY_f1-v-xii 11/12/03 4:36 PM Page v v CONTENTS/SOMMAIRE Acknowledgements .................................................................... ix Remerciements .......................................................................... xi Notes on contributors/Liste des auteurs .................................. xiii General introduction .................................................................. 1 Nadine Méouchy and Peter Sluglett Introduction générale ................................................................ 21 Nadine Méouchy et Peter Sluglett PART ONE/PREMIÈRE PARTIE SOURCE MATERIALS FOR THE MANDATES/ OUTILS DOCUMENTAIRES SUR LES MANDATS Outils documentaires sur le mandat français .......................... 45 Pierre Fournié et François-Xavier Trégan British archival sources for the history of the Middle Eastern mandates .................................................................. 55 Peter Sluglett Corpus juris du mandat français .............................................. 63 Youssef S. Takla PART TWO/DEUXIÈME PARTIE THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER OF THE MANDATES: POLITICAL PRAXIS AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES/ L’ESPRIT ET LA LETTRE DES MANDATS: PRATIQUES POLITIQUES ET PERSPECTIVES CULTURELLES Les mandats/the mandates: Some reflections on the nature of the British presence in Iraq (1914–1932) and the French presence in Syria (1918–1946) ........................ 103 Peter Sluglett Le système international aux prises avec le colonialisme: les délibérations sur la Palestine dans la Commission permanente des Mandats de la Société des Nations ........ 129 Roger Heacock MEOUCHY_f1-v-xii 11/12/03 4:36 PM Page vi vi International obligation, domestic pressure and colonial nationalism; the birth of the Iraqi state under the mandate system .................................................................... 143 Toby Dodge Robert de Caix et Louis Massignon: deux visions de la politique française au Levant en 1920 ................................ 165 Gérard D. Khoury Museums and the construction of national history in Syria and Lebanon .............................................................. 185 Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh Looking East, looking West: provincial eclecticism and cultural dualism in the architecture of French mandate Beirut ...................................................................................... 203 Robert Saliba Robert Montagne et les études ethnographiques françaises dans la Syrie sous mandat .................................................. 217 Jean Métral Approche des savoirs de l’Institut français de Damas: à la recherche d’un temps mandataire .............................. 235 François-Xavier Trégan Desert medicine, ethnography, and the colonial encounter in mandatory Syria .............................................................. 249 Robert Blecher Les Français et les communautés nationales de Palestine au temps du mandat britannique ........................................ 269 Dominique Trimbur Francophonie et langue arabe dans la Syrie sous mandat: l’exemple de l’enseignement missionnaire à Damas .......... 303 Jérôme Bocquet Impérialisme, colonisation intellectuelle et politique culturelle de la Mission Laïque française en Syrie sous mandat .................................................................................. 321 Randi Deguilhem MEOUCHY_f1-v-xii 11/12/03 4:36 PM Page vii vii PART THREE/TROISIEME PARTIE THE STATE AND THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL ELITES: NETWORKS, DYNAMICS AND NATION BUILDING/L’ÉTAT ET LES ÉLITES POLITIQUES, ÉCONOMIQUES ET TECHNIQUES: RÉSEAUX, DYNAMIQUES ET CONSTRUCTION NATIONALE Instrumentalisation d’un parcours singulier: la trajectoire mandataire de l’émir 'Adil Arslan pour consolider les ruptures de l’indépendance syrienne .................................. 345 Juliette Honvault Le mandat britannique en Irak: une rencontre entre plusieurs projets politiques .................................................... 361 Pierre-Jean Luizard Une évaluation de la gestion mandataire de l’économie syrienne .................................................................................. 385 Mohammed Ali El-Saleh Dismemberment of empire and reconstitution of regional space: the emergence of ‘national’ industries in Damascus between 1918 and 1946 ...................................................... 415 Frank Peter Economic Aspects of the Arab-Zionist Confrontation in Mandatory Palestine .............................................................. 447 Khairia Kasmieh The attitude of the French mandatory authorities towards land ownership in Syria ...................................................... 457 Abdallah Hanna The British land program, state-societal cooperation, and popular imagination in Transjordan ............................ 477 Michael Fischbach Les élites techniques locales durant le mandat français en Syrie (1920–1945) ............................................................ 497 Hayma Zeifa Système éducatif et modèle professionnel: le mandat français en perspective. L’exemple des comptables au Liban ........ 537 Elisabeth Longuenesse Le dessous des cartes: quelles règles pour les jeux de l’administration libanaise? Lecture des cartes de visite et documents personnels de Shafiq al-Halabi .................... 549 Mounzer Jaber MEOUCHY_f1-v-xii 11/14/03 9:00 PM Page viii viii PART FOUR/QUATRIÈME PARTIE RURAL AND URBAN MOBILISATION: RESISTANCE AND COOPERATION/LES MOBILISATIONS URBAINES ET RURALES: RÉSISTANCE ET COOPÉRATION Minorities and ethnic mobilisation: the Kurds in northern Iraq and Syria ...................................................................... 579 Nelida Fuccaro Towards a new category of colonial theory: colonial cooperation and the Survivors’ Bargain—The case of the post-genocide Armenian community of Syria under French mandate .................................................................... 597 Keith D. Watenpaugh La mobilisation populaire à Beyrouth à l’époque du Mandat (1918–1943): l’apprentissage progressif de la participation .......................................................................... 623 Carla Eddé Le mouvement des 'isabat en Syrie du Nord à travers le témoignage du chaykh Youssef Saadoun (1919–1921) ...... 649 Nadine Méouchy A nationalist rebellion without nationalists? Popular mobilizations in mandatory Syria 1925–1926 .................... 673 Michael Provence CONCLUDING REMARKS/SYNTHÈSES DE CONCLUSION Concluding Remarks ................................................................ 695 Rashid Khalidi Regards et recherches sur les états de l’orient Arabe placés sous mandats français et Britannique Dominique Chevallier ................................................................ 705 General Bibliography ................................................................ 713 Index of Personal, Family and Tribal Names ........................ 735 MEOUCHY_f1-v-xii 11/14/03 9:00
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