The Shiʼites of Lebanon : modernism, communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists / Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Main Author: Abisaab, Rula Jurdi
Other Authors: Abisaab, Malek
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Subjects:
Shiites > Lebanon > Politics and government.
Shiites > Lebanon > Social conditions.
Islam and politics > Lebanon > History.
Hizballah (Lebanon) > History.
Lebanon > Politics and government.
Communism > Lebanon > History.
Social change > Lebanon > History.
Physical Description:xxxvi, 350 pages : map.
Variant Title:
Shiites of Lebanon.
Format: Book
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.