The Lebanese civil war

issues, actors, and outcome

France also encouraged the creation of a chief cleric, as sectarian communal
spokesman, a Mufti each among the Sunnis and Shiites and a Sheikh APAql
among the Druze. Till then these sects did not have a clerical hierarchy as did the
Christian Church34. On 24 May, 1926, a French-inspired constitution came into
force, a constitution that has regulated political life in Lebanon since that time.
The purpose of this constitution was to place sectarianism on more solid grounds
by making ...