Religion, national identity, and confessional politics in Lebanon : the challenge of Islamism

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    • Rabil, Robert G.

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Religion, national identity, and confessional politics in Lebanon : the challenge of Islamism

Robert G. Rabil

(Middle East in focus series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

1st ed

  • : softcover

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"Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 ... Transferred to digital printing in 2012"--T.p. verso of softcover

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index

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Description

Against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book illustrates in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change.

Table of Contents

Greater Lebanon and the National Pact: The Elusiveness of National Identity The Confessional System Between Lebanonism and Pan-Arabism Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyah and Fathi Yakan: The Pioneer of Sunni Islamic Activism in Lebanon The Reassertion of Sectarianism and the Rise of Islamism The Islamists and the Political System: Al-Infitah and Lebanonization The Praxis of Islamism and Syrian Suzerainty The Takeover of Beirut: The Struggle for the State The Future of Islamism in Lebanon

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