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Faith and resistance : the politics of love and war in Lebanon / Sarah Marusek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marusek, Sarah (Writer on Islamic studies), author.
- Series:
- Decolonial studies, postcolonial horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and politics--Lebanon.
- Islam and politics.
- Political activists.
- Lebanon.
- Islam and politics--Middle East.
- Middle East.
- Political activists--Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 234 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- The rise of revolutionary religious activism p. 1
- Re-Orienting 'the Orient' p. 5
- The transformation of faith and rationality p. 10
- Charity past and present p. 14
- Islamic history and myth p. 18
- Decolonial horizons p. 21
- 2 The Rise of Religious Activism in Lebanon and Beyond p. 26
- The Islamic Renaissance p. 26
- Ah Shari'ati and Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran p. 29
- Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr in Iraq p. 38
- Imam Musa al-Sadr and Ayatollah Fadlallah in Lebanon p. 43
- Liberation theology in Latin America p. 54
- Theologies of Liberation in South Africa p. 59
- 3 Deconstructing Terrorism and Resistance p. 63
- Understanding terrorism p. 63
- Lebanon's history of conflict and occupation p. 67
- Sectarianism, Lebanese Shi'is and resistance p. 71
- The loving stranger as a decolonial method p. 75
- Research obstacles in the field p. 79
- Misrepresenting Hizbullah p. 83
- 4 Lebanon's Resistance Charities p. 89
- The rise of the resistance in Lebanon p. 89
- The resistance as a social project p. 95
- The charities affiliated with Hizbullah p. 100
- The charities affiliated with al-Mabarrat p. 108
- Faith and religious rationality in the resistance charities p. 113
- 5 The Imam al-Sadr Foundation p. 123
- The legacy of Imam Musa al-Sadr p. 123
- About the Imam al-Sadr Foundation p. 127
- Description of the programmes offered p. 131
- Distancing from the resistance charities p. 135
- Religious rationality at the foundation p. 142
- 6 The Problem of Resistance and Power p. 151
- 'An open sectarian wound' p. 151
- Conceptualising resistance and intersectionality p. 155
- The limits of a sectarianism resistance p. 159
- The struggle for Syria p. 164
- The limits of a liberal resistance p. 172
- The dangers of capitalism and neoliberalism p. 175.
- ISBN:
- 0745399932
- 9780745399935
- 9780745399928
- 0745399924
- OCLC:
- 959592964
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