The Appeal of Communism among the Lebanese Shiʿa, 1943-75

This article revisits the Shiʿi community's secular past through an analysis of the evolution of Shiʿi involvement in the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP). It argues that the Shiʿi community's communist interlude was a formative moment in the political mobilization of the Shiʿa, which predat...

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Subtitles:The Appeal of Communism among the Lebanese Shiʿa, nineteen forty-three to seventy-five
Main Author: Al-Azzawi, Jehan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2019, Volume: 59, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 313-338
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lebanon / Shi'ah / Communism / History 1943-1975
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Lebanon
B Hizballah
B LCP
B Communism
B Shia
B mobilisation
B Identity
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