Shi'ite Lebanon

By recasting the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East, Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr proposes a new framework for understanding Shi''ite politics in Lebanon. Her study draws on a variety of untapped sources, reconsidering not only the politics of the established leadership of Shi''ites but also institutional and popular activities of identity production. Shaery-Eisenlohr ...