| Sumario: | The relationship between Sa'dallah al-Jabiri and Edmond Rabbath from the 1920s onwards was emblematic of a new category of actors within the “Politics of the Notables,” the late-Ottoman and early postwar hierarchy of power, authority, and domination. The role of these new actors was shaped by evolving ideas about citizenship and modern national identities, the emergence of a middle stratum in Syrian cities, and the formation of elite resistance to colonial rule from Europe. Moreover, the basic terms of the relationships between these actors were controlled by ideas of class difference and inflected with notions of sectarian subordination.
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