Religion, national identity, and confessional politics in Lebanon : the challenge of Islamism /

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Author / Creator:	Rabil, Robert G.
Imprint:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Description:	xii, 213 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The Middle East in focus Middle East in focus series.
Subject:	Islam and state -- Lebanon. Islam and politics -- Lebanon. Islamic fundamentalism -- Lebanon. Political culture -- Lebanon. Identity politics -- Lebanon. National characteristics, Lebanese. Identity politics. Islam and politics. Islam and state. Islamic fundamentalism. National characteristics, Lebanese. Political culture. Politics and government Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 1975-1990. Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 1990- Lebanon.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8517721

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ISBN:	9780230116542 (hardback) 023011654X (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Tracing the rise of Islamism in Lebanon and its attempt to Islamize society and state by the reverse integration of society and state into the project of Islamism, this book looks at Lebanon against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics and attempts to illustrate in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change. The author demonstrates that, despite ideological, political and confessional incongruities and concerns, Islamism, in both its Sunni and Shi'a variants, has maintained a unity of purpose in pursuing its project: Jihad against Israel and abolishment of political sectarianism"-- "The book traces the rise of Islamism in Lebanon and its attempt to Islamize society and state by the reverse integration of society and state into the project of Islamism. Against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book attempts to illustrate in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change. The book demonstrates that, despite ideological, political and confessional incongruities and concerns, Islamism, in both its Sunni and Shi'a variants, has maintained a unity of purpose in pursuing its project: Jihad against Israel and abolishment of political sectarianism"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Series Editor's Foreword
Introduction
1. Greater Lebanon and the National Pact: The Elusiveness of National Identity
2. The Confessional System between Lebanonism and Pan-Arabism
3. Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyah and Fathi Yakan: The Pioneer of Sunni Islamic Activism in Lebanon
4. The Reassertion of sectarianism and the Rise of Islamism
5. The Islamists and the Political System: Al-Infitah and Lebanonization
6. The praxis of Islamism and Syrian Suzerainty
7. The Takeover of Beirut: The Struggle for the State
8. The Future of Islamism in Lebanon
Conclusion
Appendix: The Political Vision of the Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyah (Islamic Association) in Lebanon 2010
Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Religion, national identity, and confessional politics in Lebanon : the challenge of Islamism /

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