المجتمع المسيحي في طرابلس الشام خلال القرنين الثامن عشر و التاسع عشر الميلاديين

Abstract EN

The research briefly reviews the situation of Tripoli during the Ottoman period, especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.

This city is the second most densely populated city by Christians after Beirut.

Christians in Tripoli are divided into a majority of Roman Orthodox Christians, and minorities of Maronite Christians, Armenians and Syriac Christians.

The Christian communities lived in the context of the Ottoman system of boredom, and each community had its own religious specificity and community uniqueness.

The Roman Orthodox had four churches, and the Maronites had four churches, as well as their own endowments.

On an economic level, Christians practiced all financial, professional and technical activities, and they were engaged in the field of administrative and diplomatic functions, especially the professions of translators and consuls of foreign countries in the Ottoman Levant.

On the social level, Christians were divided into four classes: the upper class of landlords; the middle class of craftsmen and professionals; the clergy; and the commons.

The community had been intimately connected to each other, and to Muslims.

The Christians resorted to the Shariah Court in Tripoli, Syria, since it used to implement quick justice.

The Christian community was not characterized by sectarianism in the Levant, and the public interest used to dominate religious fanaticism