Format:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849641210
Series Statement:
Critical Studies on Islam
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Background of the Study -- Objectives and Methodology -- The Politicisation of the Lebanese Shi'ites and Subsequent Rise of Hizbu'llah -- 1 Political Accommodation and Violence in Non- Islamic States -- The Oppressors versus the Oppressed -- Justifications for Political Violence and Accommodation in Relation to State Oppression -- Political Accommodation with the Lebanese state -- 2 The Islamic State and Democracy -- The Islamic State Ideal -- The Endorsement of Democracy -- 3 The Concept of the Guardianship of the Jurisprudent -- The Origins of the Concept of the Wilayat al- Faqih -- Khumayni's Conceptualisation of the Wilayat al-Faqih -- The Role of the Wilayat al-Faqih in the Political Thought of Hizbu'llah -- 4 Islamic Universalism and National Identity -- The Pan-Islamic Concept of Hizbu'llah -- The Universalism of the Wilayat al-Faqih and the Islamic Republic of Iran -- The Pan-Islamic Dimension of the Palestinian Cause -- Solidarity with the Muslim Umma -- The Primacy of Islamic Identity -- National Identity and Nationalism -- 5 The Struggle with the West -- The origins of Hizbu'llah's Anti-Westernism -- The Western Conspiracy Against Islam -- The Double Standards of the West -- Views on Political Violence as a Means of Confronting the West -- The Rejection of Western Culture -- The Struggle with the West as a Civilisational Dispute -- 6 The Resistance to the Israeli Occupation of South Lebanon -- The Resistance Priority -- The Logic of Resistance -- The Resistance to Israel as a Defensive Jihad and as the Fulfilment of the Religious Legal Obligation -- The Centrality of the Notion of Martyrdom -- 7 Anti- Zionism and Israel -- The Excoriation of Israeli State and Society -- The Zionist Essence of Israeli State and Society -- Existential Dimensions of the Struggle with Israel.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745317939
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780745317939
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3386491
