Hizbullah and the politics of remembrance : writing the Lebanese nation / Bashir Saade, University of Edinburgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saade, Bashir, 1980-

Series:

Cambridge Middle East studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hizballah (Lebanon).

Islam and state.

Lebanon--Politics and government--1990-.

Lebanon.

Politics and government.

Islam and politics--Lebanon.

Islam and politics.

Islam and state--Lebanon.

Physical Description:

x, 176 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Born out of the Israeli occupation of the South of Lebanon, the political armed group Hizbullah is a powerful player within both Lebanon and the wider Middle East. Understanding how Hizbullah has, since the 1980s, developed its own reading of the nature of the Lebanese state, national identity and historical narrative is central to grasping the political trajectory of the country. By examining the ideological production of Hizbullah, especially its underground newspaper Al Ahd, Bashir Saade offers an account of the intellectual continuity between the early phases of Hizbullah's emergence onto the political stage and its present day organization. Saade argues here that this early intellectual activity, involving an elaborate understanding of the past and history had a long lasting impact on later cultural production, one in which the notion and practice of Resistance has been central in developing national imaginaries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mapping the ground of Hizbullah's ideological production

Martyrology and conceptions of time in Hizbullah's writing practices

Imagining the Lebanese Christians through writing history

The debt to the left and the enemy: the politics of resistance

Confronting the state: writing space and Hizbullah's politics of legitimacy

Confronting the state: between party and community.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107101814

1107101816

OCLC:

948562281