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Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities
June, 2008
Cloth, 312 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14426-1
$37.50
/ £26.00
"[Shi'ite Lebanon] pursues the Iranian-Lebanese link in greater detail as a way of understanding Lebanese politics and society and the wider impact of Iran in the Middle East." — Sajjad H. Rizvi, The Muslim World Book Review
"Smart, balanced, and wonderfully readable. Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr has written a timely book at once groundbreaking and authoritative on a subject of great interest and importance. This is a work of careful scholarship and incisive analysis that provides fresh perspective on how Shi'ite identity and politics have taken form in Lebanon and the role they will play in that country's future. Easily the best book on the subject, it is a must-read for all those interested in Lebanon and the role that religion and sectarian identities play in Middle East politics." — Vali Nasr, author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future