Hezbollah : : A Short History | Third Edition - Revised and updated with a new preface, conclusion and an entirely new chapter on activities since 2011 / / Augustus Richard Norton.
With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi‘i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East. A hybrid of militia, political party, and social services and public works p...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 10 b/w illus., 1 tables, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to the Third Edition
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. Origins and Prehistory of Hezbollah
- Chapter 2. The Founding of Hezbollah
- Chapter 3. Being a Shiʿi Muslim in the Twenty- first Century
- Chapter 4. Resistance, Terrorism, and Violence in Lebanon
- Chapter 5. Playing Politics
- Chapter 6. From Celebration to War
- Chapter 7. Acclaim Gives Way to Enmity
- Chapter 8. Hezbollah’s Syrian Entanglement
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Additional Reading
- Sources Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments