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Hizbu'Llah: Politics and Religion »

Authors: Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
ISBN-13: 9780745317922, ISBN-10: 0745317928
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Amal Saad-Ghorayeb

Amal Saad-Ghorayeb is Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University. She is currently involved in a 3 part documentary on Hizbu'llah to be broadcast by US NPR, WYNC and BBC radio, amongst others, as part of a series on Living Islam funded by the Ford Foundation and the US National Endowment for the Humanities.

Book Synopsis

'Her dissection of Hizbullah's worldview is instructive. She treads carefully.' --The Jerusalem Post

Foreign Affairs

The value of this book lies in the author's reconstruction of Hezbollah ideology as gleaned from interviews, party speeches, publications, and the daily press. Readers will find especially compelling chapters on the underpinnings of Hezbollah's anti-Western and anti-Israeli stance.

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Political Accommodation and Violence in Non-Islamic States	16
2	The Islamic State and Democracy	34
3	The Concept of the Guardianship of the Jurisprudent	59
4	Islamic Universalism and National Identity	69
5	The Struggle with the West	88
6	The Resistance to the Israeli Occupation of South Lebanon	112
7	Anti-Zionism and Israel	134
8	Anti-Judaism	168
	Conclusion	187
App. 1	Miladi Equivalents to Hijri Years	192
App. 2	List of Hijri Months	193
	Glossary	194
	Notes	196
	Select Bibliography	235
	Index	243