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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Expanded Table of Contents vii
4. List of Tables xi
5. Preface xii
6. Acknowledgements xv
7. Transliteration xviii
8. Abbreviations and Chiha-related Primary Sources xix
9. 1 Orientation: Two Centuries of Institutional Communalism in Lebanon 1
10. PART ONE COMMUNALISM AND THE BIRTH OF ELECTIONS
11. 2 The Birth of Representative Communalism: From Simqaniyya (1697) to the Beirut Consultative Council (1834) 15
12. 3 The Entrenchment of Communalism and the Birth of the Electoral Principle (1840–1920) 42
13. PART TWO THE LEBANESE CONSTITUTION OF 1926
14. 4 The Constitution of 1926: Reconstructing the Timeline 75
15. 5 The Constitution of 1926: Structure and Inspiration 110
16. 6 Building Constitutional Blocks: The Communitarian Straitjacket 141
17. 7 Building Constitutional Blocks: Modern Constitutionalism 163
18. PART THREE CHIHA AFTER THE CONSTITUTION
19. 8 The Constitution Undermined 195
20. 9 Chiha’s Worldview 222
21. 10 Chiha’s Nation 251
22. PART FOUR CONSTITUTIONALISM AND GROUP REPRESENTATION
23. 11 Lebanese Constitutionalism and the Political-Theological Middle East 277
24. 12 Constitutional Frontiers: The Lebanese Constitution and the World 307
25. 13 Democracy Redefined 330
26. 14 Epilogue 361
27. General Bibliography 365
28. Index 383