Religion, National Identity, and Confessional Politics in Lebanon [electronic resource] : The Challenge of Islamism /
Rabil, R.author.
Against a background of weak and contested  national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book illustrates in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Greater Lebanon and the National Pact: The Elusiveness of National Identity * The Confessional System Between Lebanonism and Pan-Arabism * Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyah and Fathi Yakan: The Pioneer of Sunni Islamic Activism in Lebanon * The Reassertion of Sectarianism and the Rise of Islamism * The Islamists and the Political System: Al-Infitah and Lebanonization * The Praxis of Islamism and Syrian Suzerainty * The Takeover of Beirut: The Struggle for the State * The Future of Islamism in Lebanon.
Against a background of weak and contested  national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book illustrates in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change.
Ethnology-Middle East .
Middle East-Politics and government.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Religion and sociology.
Islam.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Middle Eastern Politics.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Sociology of Religion.
Islam.