In his life, Musa al Sadr was caught up in the ambiguities of Lebanese politics. His aim seems to have been not to overturn the system, but to create a coalition of notables, men of religion, men and women of modern education, and merchants who had money in West Africa, and use it to win for the Shia a better place within the Lebanese system. Once he disappeared, however, he "turned into an icon". He became, for the Shia masses dispossessed by poverty, civil war and invasion, an embodiment of that idea of the vanished Imam ...
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In his life, Musa al Sadr was caught up in the ambiguities of Lebanese politics. His aim seems to have been not to overturn the system, but to create a coalition of notables, men of religion, men and women of modern education, and merchants who had money in West Africa, and use it to win for the Shia a better place within the Lebanese system. Once he disappeared, however, he "turned into an icon". He became, for the Shia masses dispossessed by poverty, civil war and invasion, an embodiment of that idea of the vanished Imam who will some day reappear, which has formed the Shia imagination. This text is more than a story of one man or country, as it attempts to treat with understanding the central themes of Muslim society and the political structures of the region.
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Book is in good condition. Minimal signs of wear. It May have markings or highlights but kept to only a few pages. May not come with supplemental materials if applicable.
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Very Good++ in Very Good++ jacket. Size: 6x0x9; [Cornell Univ Press, 1986] First Edition. Prev owner name printed inside front cover else very clean tight and bright. Grey cloth hard cover is clean and strong, white lettering on spine is clean and bright. DJ is rubbed at top edge else clean and strong.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0801419107. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear. Inside pages are clean.; 9 X 5.90 X 0.80 inches; 228 pages.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very good in Good jacket. 228, [4] pages. A Note on Sources and Purpose. Some Lebanese Dates of Relevance. Footnotes. Map. Glossary. Index. Paperclip mark and impression on some pages. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Fouad A. Ajami (September 18, 1945-June 22, 2014) was a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In 1980, he accepted an offer from Johns Hopkins University to become director of Middle East Studies at their international relations graduate program in Washington, D.C. : the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He held an endowed chair as the Majid Khadduri professor. A year after arriving at SAIS, Ajami published his first book, The Arab Predicament, which analyzed what Ajami described as an intellectual and political crisis that swept the Arab world following its defeat by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Ajami has written several other books: The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey (1998), Beirut: City of Regrets (1988), and The Vanished Imam: Musa Al-Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon (1986). In The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey, Ajami surveyed the intellectual landscape in the Arab world and Iran, in what was in some ways an autobiography as well as a sequel to "The Arab Predicament." Ajami's book The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, The Arabs and The Iraqis in Iraq (2006), is about the American invasion of Iraq. In the summer of 1978, Musa al Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Shia sect in Lebanon, disappeared mysteriously while on a visit to Libya. As in the Shia myth of the "Hidden Imam, " this modern-day Imam left his followers upholding his legacy and awaiting his return. Considered an outsider when he had arrived in Lebanon in 1959 from his native Iran, he gradually assumed the role of charismatic mullah, and was instrumental in transforming the Shia, a quiescent and downtrodden Islamic minority, into committed political activists. What sort of person was Musa al Sadr? What beliefs in the Shia doctrine did his life embody? Where did he fit into the tangle of Lebanon's warring factions? What was behind his disappearance? In this fascinating and compelling narrative, Fouad 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.