The Shiʼites of Lebanon : modernism, communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists /

The Shiʼites of Lebanon : modernism, communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists /

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Author / Creator:Abisaab, Rula Jurdi, author.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (xxxvi, 350 pages)
Language:English
Series:Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Subject:
Hizballah (Lebanon) -- History.
Hizballah (Lebanon)
Social change -- Lebanon -- History.
Communism -- Lebanon -- History.
Islam and politics -- Lebanon -- History.
Shiites -- Lebanon -- Social conditions.
Shiites -- Lebanon -- Politics and government.
Communism.
Islam and politics.
Politics and government.
Shiites -- Politics and government.
Social change.
Lebanon -- Politics and government.
Lebanon.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11238523
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Other authors / contributors:Abisaab, Malek Hassan, author.
ISBN:9780815653011
0815653018
9780815653011
0815653018
9780815633723
0815633726
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Other form:Print version: Abisaab, Rula Jurdi. Shiʼites of Lebanon. 1st ed. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The Shiʻites and Grand Liban
  • Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle
  • Communists in the Ulama's homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state
  • The "Shiʼite communist," the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq
  • Shiʻite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left
  • Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah
  • The Islamists and civil society
  • The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state
  • Conclusion.

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