The Vanished Imam : Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon.
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- 9780801465154
- 297/.82/095692
- BP192
The Vanished Imam -- Contents -- A Note on Sources and Purpose -- For the Nonspecialist Reade -- Prologue: The Disappearance of Imam Musa al Sadr -- 1. The Intimate Stranger: Sayyid Musa of Qom -- 2. The World the Cleric Adopted -- 3. The Path the Cleric Took: Sayyid Musa and His Companions -- 4. Reinterpreting Shiism: Imam al Sadr and the Themes of Shia History -- 5. The Tightrope Act -- 6. The Legacy and Its Inheritors -- Index -- Map: Lebanon.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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