Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Political Islam Hizbullah's Institutional Identity /

• Main Author: Hage Ali, Mohanad (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Middle East-Politics and government.; Islam.; Religion and politics.; Religion and sociology.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; World history.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Politics and Religion.; Religion and Society.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; World History, Global and Transnational History.
• Physical Description: XIII, 249 p. 4 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319604268
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60426-8

This book sheds light on how Hizbullah has transformed religious rituals and supernatural narratives in order to mobilize the Shi'a community. The author examines how Hizbullah has altered its institutional structure and reconstructed Lebanese Shi'a history in a manner similar to that of nationalist movements. Through fieldwork and research, the project finds that Hizbullah has centralized around the concept of Wilayat al-Fagih (Gaurdianship of the Islamic Jurists): in essence, the absolute authority of Iran's Supreme Leader over the Shi'a "nation.".