Talk:History of Lebanon under Ottoman rule

Shihabs converted to Christianity?
The lead currently says: "The Ottomans, through the Maans, a great Druze feudal family, and the Shihabs, a Sunni Muslim family that had converted to Christianity"

However, the Shihabs in fact converted from Christianity to Islam. Is this a result of some vandal edit or am I missing something?GreyShark (dibra) 06:09, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Deeb as a source
One source is not enough for such a huge claim as the foundation of Lebanon (in the eighteenth century no less). This is not to mention a one-sided nationalistic polemic like Marius Deeb's "Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah: The Unholy Alliance and Its War on Lebanon". You need a lot more substantiation than that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7081:5D07:E706:E90E:1505:7C87:500 (talk) 23:31, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

New changes
Hi everyone,

I made the following changes to the text:
 * New section: Ottoman rule
 * Change section title: Ottoman conquest
 * Updated lead section to include the major sections
 * Updated text so that the points of the lead section were also present in the text
 * Changed title Religious conflicts -> Sectarian conflict
 * Added text on sectarian conflict, mainly the backing of European powers, their relations with communities in Mount Lebanon, and the partitioning of Mount Lebanon
 * Added text on Bashir II on his communal background
 * Added text to Lebanon under Egyptian occupation
 * Paraphrased text in sectarian conflict
 * Paraphrased sentence in World War I and the French Mandate
 * Restructured the page (new subtitles, shifting paragraphs)
 * Added sources to existing text and new text
 * Moved foreign intervention, so people first read about the events and then the intervention
 * Small changes in text (readability)
 * Marked text that needed citations and subsequently added sources to the text

There is still a lot of room for improvement, debates on Mount Lebanon, in-depth information on local dimensions, sections that are empty, and paragraphs that need citations. MLPQG (talk) 08:47, 7 May 2021 (UTC)