"Born out of the Israeli occupation of the South of Lebanon, the political armed group Hizbullah is a powerful player within both Lebanon and the wider Middle East. Understanding how Hizbullah has, since the 1980s, developed its own reading of the nature of the Lebanese state, national identity...

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Main Author:	Saade, Bashir 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Cambridge University Press 2016
Series:	Cambridge Middle East studies 47
Subjects:	Hizballah (Lebanon) Ḥizb Allāh Geschichte POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International Politik Islam and politics > Lebanon Islam and state > Lebanon Lebanon > Politics and government > 1990- Libanon
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"Born out of the Israeli occupation of the South of Lebanon, the political armed group Hizbullah is a powerful player within both Lebanon and the wider Middle East. Understanding how Hizbullah has, since the 1980s, developed its own reading of the nature of the Lebanese state, national identity and historical narrative is central to grasping the political trajectory of the country. By examining the ideological production of Hizbullah, especially its underground newspaper Al Ahd, Bashir Saade offers an account of the intellectual continuity between the early phases of Hizbullah's emergence onto the political stage and its present day organization. Saade argues here that this early intellectual activity, involving an elaborate understanding of the past and history had a long lasting impact on later cultural production, one in which the notion and practice of Resistance has been central in developing national imaginaries"...
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	x, 176 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781107101814