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The Vanished Imam : Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1986Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801465154
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Vanished ImamDDC classification:
  • 297/.82/095692
LOC classification:
  • BP192
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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