Richard T. Antoun is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Arab Village; Low-Key Politics, also published by SUNY Press; and Muslim Preacher in the Modern World. Donald Quataert is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Southwest Asia and North Africa Program at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire.

"It focuses on the sociocultural bases of political culture in Syria. It offers a variety of insights into Syrian society that one cannot find in a single work on Syria." — Fauzi M. Najjar, Center of Integrative Studies, Michigan State University

• PrefaceDonald Quataert Note on TransliterationChronologyGlossaryTable: Syria: Area and PopulationMap: Distribution of Population in Syria, 1970Map: Syria: Administrative Divisions Introduction. Ethnicity, Clientship, and Class: Their Changing MeaningRichard T. Antoun 1. Syrian Political Culture: A Historical PerspectivePhilip S. Khoury 2. Class and State in Ba'thist SyriaRaymond A. Hinnebusch 3. The Alawis of Syria: Religious Ideology and OrganizationFuad I. Khuri 4. Land Reform and Class Structure in Rural SyriaSulayman N. Khalaf 5. The Emancipation of Women in Contemporary Syrian LiteratureSalih J. Altoma 6. Asad: Between Institutions and AutocracyPatrick Seale 7. The Nature of the Soviet-Syrian Link under Asad and under GorbachevHelena Cobban Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

Richard T. Antoun is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Arab Village; Low-Key Politics, also published by SUNY Press; and Muslim Preacher in the Modern World. Donald Quataert is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Southwest Asia and North Africa Program at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire.

"It focuses on the sociocultural bases of political culture in Syria. It offers a variety of insights into Syrian society that one cannot find in a single work on Syria." — Fauzi M. Najjar, Center of Integrative Studies, Michigan State University

• PrefaceDonald Quataert Note on TransliterationChronologyGlossaryTable: Syria: Area and PopulationMap: Distribution of Population in Syria, 1970Map: Syria: Administrative Divisions Introduction. Ethnicity, Clientship, and Class: Their Changing MeaningRichard T. Antoun 1. Syrian Political Culture: A Historical PerspectivePhilip S. Khoury 2. Class and State in Ba'thist SyriaRaymond A. Hinnebusch 3. The Alawis of Syria: Religious Ideology and OrganizationFuad I. Khuri 4. Land Reform and Class Structure in Rural SyriaSulayman N. Khalaf 5. The Emancipation of Women in Contemporary Syrian LiteratureSalih J. Altoma 6. Asad: Between Institutions and AutocracyPatrick Seale 7. The Nature of the Soviet-Syrian Link under Asad and under GorbachevHelena Cobban Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

Richard T. Antoun is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Arab Village; Low-Key Politics, also published by SUNY Press; and Muslim Preacher in the Modern World. Donald Quataert is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Southwest Asia and North Africa Program at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire.

"It focuses on the sociocultural bases of political culture in Syria. It offers a variety of insights into Syrian society that one cannot find in a single work on Syria." — Fauzi M. Najjar, Center of Integrative Studies, Michigan State University

• PrefaceDonald Quataert Note on TransliterationChronologyGlossaryTable: Syria: Area and PopulationMap: Distribution of Population in Syria, 1970Map: Syria: Administrative Divisions Introduction. Ethnicity, Clientship, and Class: Their Changing MeaningRichard T. Antoun 1. Syrian Political Culture: A Historical PerspectivePhilip S. Khoury 2. Class and State in Ba'thist SyriaRaymond A. Hinnebusch 3. The Alawis of Syria: Religious Ideology and OrganizationFuad I. Khuri 4. Land Reform and Class Structure in Rural SyriaSulayman N. Khalaf 5. The Emancipation of Women in Contemporary Syrian LiteratureSalih J. Altoma 6. Asad: Between Institutions and AutocracyPatrick Seale 7. The Nature of the Soviet-Syrian Link under Asad and under GorbachevHelena Cobban Notes Bibliography Contributors Index