| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 288 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
History and society of the modern Middle East
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History and society of the modern Middle East series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index. |
| Contents |
Claiming cultural citizenship in Lebanon, from margin to center -- The nation in the making -- Two nations and one state : Shiʻite and Maronite Lebanon -- Schooling and the creation of Lebanese Shiʻite public identity -- Transnational debates and local struggles -- Shiʻite piety and the Palestinian cause : the history of a discourse -- The politics of Shiʻite authenticity since 1982 -- Iranian cultural politics in Lebanon. |
| Summary |
"By recasting the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East, Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr proposes a new framework for understanding Shi'ite politics in Lebanon. Her study draws on a variety of untapped sources, reconsidering not only the politics of the established leadership of Shi'ites but also institutional and popular activities of identity production. Shaery-Eisenlohr traces current Shi'ite politics of piety and authenticity to the coexistence formula in Lebanon and argues that engaging in the discourses of piety and coexistence is a precondition to cultural citizenship in Lebanon. As she demonstrates, debates over the nature of Christianity and Islam and Christian-Muslim dialogue are in fact intertwined with power struggles at the state level. Since the 1970s, debates in the transnational Shi'ite world have gradually linked Shi'ite piety with the support of the Palestinian cause. Iran's religious elite has backed this piety project in multiple ways, but in doing so it has assisted in the creation of a variety of Lebanese Shi'ite nationalisms with competing claims to religious and national authenticity. Shaery-Eisenlohr argues that these ties to Iran have in fact strengthened the position of Lebanese Shi'ites by providing, as is recognized, economic, military, and ideological support for Hizbullah, as well as by compelling Lebanese Shi'ites to foreground the Lebanese components of their identity more forcefully than ever before"--Jacket. |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shīʻah -- Lebanon.
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Shīʻah. |
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Lebanon. |
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Shiites -- Political activity -- Lebanon.
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Shiites -- Political activity. |
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Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 1990-
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1990- |
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Lebanon -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1990 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shaery-Eisenlohr, Roschanack. Shiʻite Lebanon. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 9780231513135 (DLC) 2007048438 (OCoLC)182553061 |
| ISBN |
9780231513135 (electronic book) |
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0231513135 (electronic book) |
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9780231144261 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231144261 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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