Mohanad Hage Ali

Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Political Islam

Hizbullah's Institutional Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book sheds light on how Hizbullah has transformed religious rituals and supernatural narratives in order to mobilize the Shi'a community. The author examines how Hizbullah has altered its institutional structure and reconstructed Lebanese Shi'a history in a manner similar to that of nationalist movements. Through fieldwork and research, the project finds that Hizbullah has centralized around the concept of Wilayat al-Fagih (Gaurdianship of the Islamic Jurists): in essence, the absolute authority of Iran's Supreme Leader over the Shi'a "nation."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-86862-2
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9783319868622
• ISBN-10: 3319868624
• Artikelnr.: 55128249

Autorenporträt

Mohanad Hage Ali is Lecturer at the Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon. He is also Director of Communications at the Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut, Lebanon.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Construction of Hizbullah's Identity.- Chapter 2: The Role of Hizbullah's Institutions in the Reconstruction of Shi'i Identity.- Chapter 3: The Reconstructed History of the Lebanese Shi'a.- Chapter 4: Hizbullah's Reconstruction of History.- Chapter 5: The Supernatural in Hizbullah's Identity.- Chapter 6: Transnational Wilayat al-Faqih.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.