The Shi'is of Jabal 'Amil and the New Lebanon.(Book review)

From: Middle East Quarterly | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The Shi'is of Jabal 'Amil and the New Lebanon. By Tamara Chalabi. New York: Palgrave, 2006. 227 pp. +xvii. $69.95.

Both Western and Arabic-language histories have neglected the Shi'ites of modern Lebanon. Chalabi masterfully brings this missing history to life in a reworked Harvard doctoral dissertation. In an age where academics favor theory and polemic over scholarship, she fulfills the traditional detective function of historians. Fluent in English, French, and Arabic, she explored old archives and never-before-used personal libraries in southern Lebanese towns and ...

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