TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - The Nation‐State Form and the Emergence of ‘Minorities' in Syria
JO  - Studies in ethnicity and nationalism
A1  - White, Benjamin
SP  - 64
EP  - 85
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
N2  - Minorities are specifically modern political groupings: they belong to the era of nation-states. This article explores the emergence of minorities in Syria under the French mandate. It examines the contradictions caused by French attempts to impose a religious political order within the secular form of the nation-state, showing how that form created minorities, most of whom cannot simply be mapped onto the millets, or religious communities, of the Ottoman Empire.<p /> 
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SN  - 1473-8481
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2007.tb00108.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -