[PDF.73zk] The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon

The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon

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 | #1884744 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  1987-08-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.97 x.66 x5.90l,.72 | File type: PDF | 228 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Intimate Portrait of a Sincere Muslim Activist and Reformer|By Ahmad Hassan|Sayyid Musa al Sadr was a genuine and charismatic modern Muslim reformer. His story is presented by noted scholar, author, and news analyst and commentator Fouad Ajami in a book that is well-researched, superbly written, and told in a clear and gripping style. The author starts by setting the backdrop f|From Library Journal|Sayyid Musa al Sadr came to Lebanon in 1959 and disappeared during a visit to Libya in 1978. What begins as a narrow study of a relatively minor figure becomes a sensitive and probing analysis of current Middle Eastern society. Ajami elucida

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 an...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon   |  Fouad Ajami. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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