A01=Majed Halawi
Abd Allah
Ahl Al Bayt
Author_Majed Halawi
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civil war dynamics
Contemporary Society
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Greater Beirut Area
Greater Lebanon
Hizb Al Nahda
Home Towns
Ibn Abi Sufyan
Israeli Defense Forces
King Crane Commission
Married Women
Middle East politics
modernization theory
Mount Lebanon
Musa Al Sadr
Musa al-Sadr's rhetoric
North Lebanon
political sociology
politically articulate group
reformed Lebanese polity
religious leadership
Riyad Al Sulh
sectarian mobilization
Sharaf Al Dins
Shi'a movement
Shi'a political transformation Lebanon
Socioeconomic Development
South Lebanon
Sweeping Pressures
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367012366
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 149 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The 1980s were a watershed in the history of the Shi’a community in Lebanon. From the attacks on Israeli forces in South Lebanon in the aftermath of the 1982 invasion, through the final withdrawal of the multinational force from Beirut in March 1984, the Shi’a have decisively thrust themselves into the international political arena. Majed Halawi explores the origins of this Shi’a movement and its determination to become a major participant in a sharply reformed Lebanese polity. The tale is rooted in Lebanon’s history and sociopolitical culture, in the seeds of its civil war, and in the mobilization of the hitherto “marginal” masses. A Lebanon Defied is therefore an analysis of the dynamics of politicization. On the one hand, there is the political leadership of Sayyid Musa al-Sadr, which drew upon Shi’ism as a revolutionary paradigm in order to provoke the transformation of the Shi’a masses into a self-conscious and politically articulate group. On the other hand, there is the experience of modernization that the Shi’a community underwent in nearly three decades of Lebanese independence. The interaction between these two factors is the primary concern of this study. Halawi’s critical analysis is informed by the need to produce an account that the Shi’a community itself would consider an adequate representation of its modern experience in Lebanon.
