Lebanon Defied

Author : Majed Halawi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429722737
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lebanon Defied written by Majed Halawi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lebanon Defied focuses on the constitutive role of the Shi'a masses in the movement led by Sayyid Musa al-Sadr in Lebanon. It explores the origins of this Shi'a movement and its determination to become a major participant in a sharply reformed Lebanese polity. .

Author : Rodger Shanahan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857716786
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shi'a of Lebanon written by Rodger Shanahan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shi'a of Lebanon have emerged in the last 30 years to become a major force in Lebanese politics, having previously long been a marginalised political community. Here, Rodger Shanahan examines the reasons behind this transformation from a largely rural population dominated by a handful of elite families, to an assertive sectarian force whose new-found power is exemplified by the emergence and influence of Shi'i political parties, most notably Hezbollah. In this unique and perceptive study, Shanahan explores the development of the Shi'i community from the imposition of French mandatory rule, through independence and the bloody civil war of the 1970s and 1980s to the withdrawal of Israeli forces from South Lebanon in 2000. Here, for the first time in paperback, Shanahan also examines the more recent controversies and crises of the 2006 War with Israel and the death of Ayatollah Muhammad Fadlallah.

Author : Rula Jurdi Abisaab
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653018
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shi'ites of Lebanon written by Rula Jurdi Abisaab and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex history of Lebanese Shi‘ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nuanced account in which colonialism, the modern state, social class, and provincial politics profoundly shaped Shi‘i society. The authors trace the sociopolitical, economic, and intellectual transformation of the Shi‘ites of Lebanon from 1920 during the French colonial period until the late twentieth century. They shed light on the relationship of contemporary Islamic militancy with traditions of religious modernism and leftism in both Lebanon and Iraq. Analyzing the interaction between sacred and secular features of modern Shi‘ite society, the authors clearly follow the group’s turn toward religious revolution and away from secular activism. This book transforms our understanding of twentieth-century Lebanese history and demonstrates how the rise of Hizbullah was conditioned by Shi‘ites’ consistent marginalization and neglect by the Lebanese state.

Author : William Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199986584
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lebanon written by William Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from their origins between the sixth and eleventh centuries. The identities of Maronite Christians, Twelver Shia Muslims, and Druze, the mountain communities, developed alongside assertions of local chiefs under external powers from the Umayyads to the Ottomans. The chiefs began interacting in a common arena when Druze lord Fakhr al-Din Ma'n achieved domination of the mountain within the Ottoman imperial framework in the early seventeenth century. Harris knits together the subsequent interplay of the elite under the Sunni Muslim Shihab relatives of the Ma'ns after 1697 with demographic instability as Maronites overtook Shia as the largest community and expanded into Druze districts. By the 1840s many Maronites conceived the common arena as their patrimony. Maronite/Druze conflict ensued. Modern Lebanon arose out of European and Ottoman intervention in the 1860s to secure sectarian peace in a special province. In 1920, after the Ottoman collapse, France and the Maronites enlarged the province into the modern country, with a pluralism of communal minorities headed by Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims. The book considers the flowering of this pluralism in the mid-twentieth century, and the strains of new demographic shifts and of social resentment in an open economy. External intrusions after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war rendered Lebanon's contradictions unmanageable and the country fell apart. Harris contends that Lebanon has not found a new equilibrium and has not transcended its sects. In the early twenty-first century there is an uneasy duality: Shia have largely recovered the weight they possessed in the sixteenth century, but Christians, Sunnis, and Druze are two-thirds of the country. This book offers readers a clear understanding of how modern Lebanon acquired its precarious social intricacy and its singular political character.

Author : William W. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190217839
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lebanon written by William W. Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the affairs of Mount Lebanon and its surrounds through fourteen centuries, beginning with the emergence of its Christian, Muslim and Islamic-derived communities between the sixth and eleventh centuries. Against this backdrop, it interprets the modern republic of Lebanon from Ottoman antecedents to present day crises.

Author : David S. Sorenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313365792
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Security Watch—Lebanon written by David S. Sorenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive examination of the complex domestic environment and the quarrelsome neighbors that contribute to Lebanon's condition as one of the most violent and unstable countries in the Middle East. Global Security Watch—Lebanon is the first volume to consider all factors—political, economic, religious, and actions by its neighbors—that have contributed to Lebanon's violent past and that shape its current security status. In Global Security Watch—Lebanon, author David Sorenson explores Lebanon's arcane—almost dysfunctional—political structure and economic system, as well as the complex religious makeup of a country that is home to Christians, Jews, and Arabs with no majority faith. Sorenson also looks at how the nation has often served as a focal point of diplomatic and military conflict for other nations, including Syria, Iran, and Israel, as well as how ill-informed American policies toward Lebanon have ultimately harmed American strategic interests in the Middle East.

Author : R. Rabil
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230339255
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, National Identity, and Confessional Politics in Lebanon written by R. Rabil and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book illustrates in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change.

Author : Lucia Volk
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004926
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon written by Lucia Volk and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lebanese history is often associated with sectarianism and hostility between religious communities, but by examining public memorials and historical accounts Lucia Volk finds evidence for a sustained politics of Muslim and Christian co-existence. Lebanese Muslim and Christian civilians were jointly commemorated as martyrs for the nation after various episodes of violence in Lebanese history. Sites of memory sponsored by Maronite, Sunni, Shiite, and Druze elites have shared the goal of creating cross-community solidarity by honoring the joint sacrifice of civilians of different religious communities. This compelling and lucid study enhances our understanding of culture and politics in the Middle East and the politics of memory in situations of ongoing conflict.

Author : MAJED. HALAWI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780429042225
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LEBANON DEFIED written by MAJED. HALAWI and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Najem
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134479123
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lebanon written by Tom Najem and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In a time of great political change and unrest in the Middle East, this highly topical text offers a succinct account of the contemporary political environment in Lebanon. Tom Najem provides both a developed understanding of the pre-civil war system and an analysis of how circumstances resulting from the civil war combined with essential pre-war elements to define politics in Lebanon. Systematically exploring Lebanons history, society and politics, the author stresses the importance of the crucial role of external actors in the Lebanese system. The analysis encompasses:the formation of the stateweaknesses and dynamics of the Lebanese statethe civil warpost-war government and changethe Lebanese economyforeign policy. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book fills a conspicuous gap in the existing academic literature on Lebanon. It will be of interest not only to students of international politics and Middle East studies, but also to anyone travelling in or wanting to learn more about the region.