Secular Coexistence in Lebanon: Christians, Muslims and Subjects of Law

A study of the coexistence of Muslims and Christians in Lebanon through an investigation of Lebanese law. The book considers coexistence as an organizing or structuring principle of the modern Lebanese state, and of its legal order. It analyses the kind of legal arrangement that coexistence dictates, and the legal processes that sustain coexistence. It reaches beyond the law to describe or provide an account of coexistence as constitutive of a secular sensibility or form of life, a sensibil...