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Abisaab, Rula Jurdi, author.

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

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Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials	EBSCO Ebook	Downloadable
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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xxxvi, 350 pages).
Series	Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
	Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Note	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject	Hizballah (Lebanon) -- History.
	Social change -- Lebanon -- History.
	Communism -- Lebanon -- History.
	Islam and politics -- Lebanon -- History.
	Shiites -- Lebanon -- Social conditions.
	Shiites -- Lebanon -- Politics and government.
	Lebanon -- Politics and government.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Added Author	Abisaab, Malek, author.
Other Form:	Print version: Abisaab, Rula Jurdi. Shiʼites of Lebanon. 1st ed. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014 (DLC) 2014031582
ISBN	9780815653011 (electronic bk.)
	0815653018 (electronic bk.)

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