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The Vanished Imam : Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon / / Fouad Ajami



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Autore: Ajami Fouad Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Vanished Imam : Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon / / Fouad Ajami Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, N.Y. : , : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©1986
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
Disciplina: 297.8209
Soggetto topico: Shīʻah - Lebanon
Shiites - Lebanon
HISTORY
Middle East / General
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Islam
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Content -- A Note on Sources and Purpose -- For the Nonspecialist Reader -- Prologue: The Disappearance of Imam Musa al Sadr -- The Intimate Stranger: Sayyid Musa of Qom -- The World the Cleric Adopted -- The Path the Cleric Took: Sayyid Musa and His Companions -- Reinterpreting Shiism: Imam al Sadr and the Themes of Shia History -- The Tightrope Act -- The Legacy and Its Inheritors -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In the summer of 1978, Musa al Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Shia sect in Lebanon, disappeared mysteriously while on a visit to Libya. As in the Shia myth of the "Hidden Imam," this modern-day Imam left his followers upholding his legacy and awaiting his return. Considered an outsider when he had arrived in Lebanon in 1959 from his native Iran, he gradually assumed the role of charismatic mullah, and was instrumental in transforming the Shia, a quiescent and downtrodden Islamic minority, into committed political activists.What sort of person was Musa al Sadr? What beliefs in the Shia doctrine did his life embody? Where did he fit into the tangle of Lebanon's warring factions? What was behind his disappearance? In this fascinating and compelling narrative, Fouad Ajami resurrects the Shia's neglected history, both distant and recent, and interweaves the life and work of Musa al Sadr with the larger strands of the Shia past.
Titolo autorizzato: The Vanished Imam  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8014-6507-9
0-8014-6515-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779018303321
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