New Texts Out Now: Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab, The Shi‘ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists
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This book invites scholars to rethink, first of all, the separations and the contrasts that we draw between religious movements and secular ideas. We cannot give the secular and the secularists generic descriptions or assign them peripheral roles in shaping the public and private worlds of the Lebanese. This study hopes to open a new space for studies that stress the pervasiveness of particular secular ideas and processes in Lebanese society and their complex interface with sectarianism and religion.