The Martyr Of Lebanon

Author : Isaac Bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Converts
ISBN : NYPL:33433082545496

Get Book

The Martyr of Lebanon by Isaac Bird Pdf

Author : Isaac Bird
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1340546205

Get Book

The Martyr Of Lebanon by Isaac Bird Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Lucia Volk
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253004925

Get Book

Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon by Lucia Volk Pdf

Lebanese history is often associated with sectarianism and hostility between religious communities, but by examining public memorials and historical accounts Lucia Volk finds evidence for a sustained politics of Muslim and Christian co-existence. Lebanese Muslim and Christian civilians were jointly commemorated as martyrs for the nation after various episodes of violence in Lebanese history. Sites of memory sponsored by Maronite, Sunni, Shiite, and Druze elites have shared the goal of creating cross-community solidarity by honoring the joint sacrifice of civilians of different religious communities. This compelling and lucid study enhances our understanding of culture and politics in the Middle East and the politics of memory in situations of ongoing conflict.

Author : Michael Young
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1439109451

Get Book

The Ghosts of Martyrs Square by Michael Young Pdf

NOT SINCE THOMAS FRIEDMAN’SFROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM IN 1989 HAS A JOURNALIST OFFERED SUCH A POIGNANT AND PASSIONATE PORTRAIT OF LEBANON—A UNIQUELY PLURALIST ARAB COUNTRY STRUGGLING TO DEFEND ITS VIABILITY IN A TURBULENT AND TREACHEROUS MIDDLE EAST. Michael Young, who was taken to Lebanon at age seven by his Lebanese mother after the death of his American father and who has worked most of his career as a journalist there for American publications, brings to life a country in the crossfire of invasions, war, domestic division, incessant sectarian scheming, and often living in fear of its neighbors. Young knows or has known many of the players, politicians, writers, and religious leaders. A country riven by domestic tensions that have often resulted in assassinations, under the considerable sway of Hezbollah (in alliance with Iran and Syria), frequently set upon by Israel and Syria, nearly destroyed by civil war, Lebanon remains an exception among Arab countries because it is a place where liberal instincts and tolerance struggle to stay alive. An important and enduring symbol, Lebanon was once the outstanding example of an (almost) democratic society in an inhospitable, dangerous region—a laboratory both for modernity and violence, as a Lebanese intellectual who was later assassinated once put it. Young relates the growing tension between a domineering Syria and a Lebanese opposition in which charismatic leader and politician Rafiq al-Hariri was assassinated and the Independence Intifada—the Cedar Revolution—broke out. His searing account of his country’s confrontation with its domestic and regional demons is one of hope found and possibly lost. In this stunning narrative, Young tells us what might have been his country’s history, and what it may yet be.

Author : Isaac Bird
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0483393037

Get Book

The Martyr of Lebanon (Classic Reprint) by Isaac Bird Pdf

Excerpt from The Martyr of Lebanon In the Clerk's Ofiice of the District Court Of the District Of Massachusetts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Sabrina Bonsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783658280987

Get Book

Martyr Cults and Political Identities in Lebanon by Sabrina Bonsen Pdf

Sabrina Bonsen sheds light on political cults of martyrs in Lebanon and reconsiders the context of their emergence, development and distinct characteristics since 1920. She examines how the honouring of martyrs became an established practice in Lebanese politics and is crucial to grasp the logic of violence and conflict. Drawing on the case of the Amal movement, the author analyses central narratives to the group’s discourse and practices concerning martyrdom to show how identity construction and strategies of legitimizing power are intertwined. Moreover, the book provides insides into political competition strategies, especially in regards to the two major Shiʿite political actors, Amal and Hizbullah, and takes a new look on martyrdom by going beyond cultural-religious explanations.

Author : James Croil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Martyrs
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR59898534

Get Book

The Noble Army of Martyrs & Roll of Protestant Missionary Martyrs from A.D. 1661 to 1891 by James Croil Pdf

Author : Catherine Baker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474446204

Get Book

Making War on Bodies by Catherine Baker Pdf

This vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework. This helps us to understand how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it.

Author : M. Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137281999

Get Book

Women in Lebanon by M. Thomas Pdf

Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.

Author : Daniel Meier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786730572

Get Book

Shaping Lebanon's Borderlands by Daniel Meier Pdf

Regional struggles, wars and local confrontations have marked the south of Lebanon since the end of the 1960s. They have transformed this marginalized and rural region into a battlefield and redefined the relationships between international, regional and local actors. The most recent of these actors the Palestinian refugees and their armed resistance, the Islamic Shi i movement Hizbullah, and the UN local mission (UNIFIL) have marked and shaped the place, and in turn operating in this borderland has affected their identities. Based on Daniel Meier s extensive fieldwork in the region, this book offers interviews with militants, his own observations of this conflict-ridden and dangerous region as well as incisive political analysis concerning the armed militias operating in the area. It is through this in-depth examination of the southern borderlands of Lebanon that Meier sheds new light on some of the major Middle Eastern confrontations of the last half a century."

Author : Jeffrey W Lewis
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612510972

Get Book

The Business of Martyrdom by Jeffrey W Lewis Pdf

The Business of Martyrdom is the only comprehensive history of suicide bombing from its origins in Imperial Russia to the present day. It makes use of a framework from the history and philosophy of technology to explain the diffusion and evolution of suicide bombing over the past several decades. It is primarily a work of synthesis meant to reach a broad audience and endeavors to integrate as much of the recent scholarly literature as possible, including reconciling explanatory mechanisms that seem to be at odds with one another. In addition, this book is able to draw on very recent changes in suicide bombing in the years 2008-2010 that allow it to have a slightly different perspective than earlier studies. For the first time the global number of suicide attacks has declined significantly for three years in a row. This book therefore has the advantage of addressing the phenomenon of suicide bombing as a bounded phenomenon with limits to its growth and diffusion. To this point the impression that suicide bombers are the smartest bombs yet created has been widespread but confined to the area of metaphor. Drawing well-established ideas from the history of technology, The Business of Martyrdom argues that the metaphor should be taken literally. Suicide bombing is a technology that has been invented and re-invented at different times in different areas but always for the same purpose: resolving a mismatch in military capabilities between antagonists by utilizing the available cultural and human resources. Over the past several years, analysts have produced a large number of monographs and articles examining suicide bombing. The best contributions in this new and growing literature have shed considerable light on the complexity of suicide bombing in practice, particularly regarding the structure of the organizations that deploy suicide bombers and the relationships between these organizations and the recruits whom they utilize in their attacks. Nevertheless, nagging inconsistencies and questions remain. These inconsistencies can be explained by examining suicide bombing as a technological system that integrates human beings, cultures, and devices and directs them toward specific ends. Such an analysis requires that neither the individual bombers nor their sponsoring organizations be the basic unit of discussion. Instead, the bombers must be understood as components within a much larger system that has been shaped by a host of social, cultural, and operational constraints throughout its existence. Integrating insights from the historical analysis of other technological systems with the recent literature specifically devoted to suicide bombing therefore allows The Business of Martyrdom to develop a fuller understanding of suicide bombing as a unified yet diverse phenomenon.

Author : Dani Nassif
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031491719

Get Book

Trauma, Memory, and the Lebanese Post-War Novel by Dani Nassif Pdf

Author : Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429827051

Get Book

Power Sharing in Lebanon by Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif Pdf

This book studies the origins and evolution of power sharing in Lebanon. The author has established a relationship between mobilization, ethnurgy (ethnic identification), memory and trauma, and how they impact power sharing provisions. The book starts with the events in the 1820s, when communities began to politicize their identities, and which led to the first major outbreak of civil violence between the Druze and the Maronites. Consequently, these troubled four decades in Lebanon led to the introduction of various forms of power-sharing arrangements to establish peace. The political systems introduced in Lebanon are: the Kaim-Makamiya (dual sub-governorship), a quasi-federal arrangement; the Mutassarifiya, the prototype of a power-sharing system; the post-independence political system of Lebanon which the book refers to as semi-consociation, due to the concentration of executive powers in the Presidential office; and finally, the full consociation of the Taif Republic. In each of these phases, there was a peculiar interaction between the non-structural elements that had a direct impact on power sharing; this led at times to instability, and at other times it brought down the system, as in 1840–1860 and 1975. Power Sharing in Lebanon is the first academic work that emphasizes the influence of the non-structural elements that hinder power sharing. This volume is now a key resource for students and academics interested in Lebanese Politics and the Middle East.

Author : John Nagle,Mary-Alice Clancy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000486742

Get Book

Power-Sharing after Civil War by John Nagle,Mary-Alice Clancy Pdf

This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of the legacy of Lebanon’s peace agreement in the 30 years since it was signed. The chapters in this edited volume have been written by leading scholars and provide in-depth analyses of key issues in postwar Lebanon, including the performance of power-sharing, human rights, communal memory and sectarianism, conflict and peace, militias, political parties and elections. A core strength of the book is the multidisciplinary approach to understanding postwar Lebanon, ranging from political science, international relations, sociology, conflict and peace studies, history and memory studies. The multidisciplinary character of the book allows for a rich and detailed evaluation of the ongoing legacy and consequences of Lebanon’s postwar settlement. The book will be of interest to scholars, students and people interested in contemporary Lebanese politics and society. It will also be attractive for a wider international audience interested in the consequences of postwar power-sharing systems and peace processes. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Author : David Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521850407

Get Book

Martyrdom in Islam by David Cook Pdf

A fascinating history of the role of martyrdom in the Muslim faith.