The Vanished Imam: Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801419107 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fouad Ajami is one of the best if not the best contemporary Arab writers A reader Fouad Ajami is one of the best if not the best contemporary Arab writers. An excellent read on the history and struggles of the Shia in Lebanon and their persecution by the Ottomans and other groups in Lebanon. Musa Al sadr was a truly amazing figure.. Hussain Abdul-Hussain said Ajami's best. This book is Ajami's best. It creates the ideological, sociological and historic context for the career of one of the most illustrious Iranian-born Lebanese Shiite mullahs in Lebanon. Ajami also provides clear genealogy of the roots of Mussa Sadr.In 1959, Sadr had arrived in Lebanon to succeed the mufti of Tyr in southern Lebanon. Unlike religious men of his time, Sadr took his position to unprecedented levels as he started preachi. Eagle Eye said About More than Just A Shi'i Leader. Magnificent book vital to understanding As Sadr's role in redefining the politics of the Lebanese Shia and the genesis of Amal and Hezbollah. Through it you also learn a great deal about the Lebanese state and the interactions of its main communities. There are deep insights here and a visceral understanding of south Lebanon as only someone like Ajami (a Shi'i orig from that area) could impart them. The weakness is that it is perha
He avoids the facile characterization of fanatic and provides an understanding of the tensions building in the Shiite community before erupting into bloody civil war and fueling international terrorism. From Library Journal Sayyid Musa al Sadr came to Lebanon in 1959 and disappeared during a visit to Libya in 1978. Ajami elucidates, for the general reader as well as the specialist, a charismatic and enigmatic man, combining religious and political leadership in contemporary Lebanon, a country torn by religious and political conflicts. What begins as a narrow study of a relatively minor figure becomes a sensitive and probing analysis of current Middle Eastern society. . Elizabeth R. Hayford, President, Assoc. Colls. of the Midwest, ChicagoCop
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.