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Shi'Is of Jabal 'Amil and the New Lebanon Community and Nation-State, 1918-1943

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ISBN-10: 1403970289

ISBN-13: 9781403970282

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tamara Chalabi, Fouad Ajami

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Chalabi highlights the development of a politics of demand and the increased political activism of this community in a time of great change. The text explores how Arab nationalism was transformed from an ideology of opposition and empowerment of marginal communities into a tool for political domination.
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Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2/7/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Maps
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
With the New Lebanon: Political Evolution
In the Beirut Vilayet: A Description of Jabal 'Amil
Geography: The Physical Description of the Mountain
Society: Peasants, Ulama, Zu'ama, and Wujaha'
Economy: Relations with Mount Lebanon
Political Leadership: The Bey and Parliamentary Representation
Jabal 'Amil and the Arab Awakening: Political Culture and Education Prior to the Mandate
Men of Culture
The Status of Learning
The Impact of the Great War
The Famine
Conscription
The 'Aley Trials
A Snapshot of 'Amili Culture: Sulayman Dahir's Journal
Turmoil and New Order: Jabal 'Amil in 1920
Faysal and the Arab Revolt
Contest for Allegiance: Internal and External Players
Struggle for Supremacy and Divided Loyalties
The Wadi Hujayr Conference and Its Repercussions
In the New Lebanon: Sociocultural Transformation
Jabal 'Amil Redefined: In the Nation State of Lebanon
From Jabal 'Amil to South Lebanon
Defining the Lebanese State
Petit Liban/Grand Liban and the Ideological Disinheritance of Jabal 'Amil
Ideological Disinheritance
Out of the Margins: Political and Religious Integration
Matlabiyya: A Politics of Demand
Matlabiyya as Participation
Venues for Integration: Religion and Education
The Strengthening of the Shi'i Religious Personality
Integration through Education
History and Culture: Constructing a Lebanese Identity
Toward a Historical Equality
The Maronite Model: Application of the Nationalist History in the Lebanese Context
The Shi'i Adaptation to the Model
'Amili Alter Ego: Al-'Irfan and the Press
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index