Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The Shiʻites and Grand Liban
  • Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle
  • Communists in the Ulama's homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state
  • The "Shiʼite communist," the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq
  • Shiʻite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left
  • Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah
  • The Islamists and civil society
  • The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state
  • Conclusion.