Political sociology. What is Hezbollah?
- By Daniel Meier
Pages 35 to 47
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- MEIER, Daniel,
- Meier, Daniel.
- Meier, D.
https://doi.org/10.3917/lcdlo.112.0035
Cite this article
- Meier, D.
- Meier, Daniel.
- MEIER, Daniel,
https://doi.org/10.3917/lcdlo.112.0035
Notes
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[1]
Amal (Arabic for “hope”) is an acronym of “Afwaj al mouqawama al loubnaniyya” (Lebanese Resistance Detachments) (editor’s note).
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[2]
Daher 2008.
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Harb 2010.
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Or “velayet e faqih,” in Persian: the idea that the most senior Shi‘i religious dignitary can assume the functions of both religious and political “supreme leader.”
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Mervin 2008, 79.
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Mervin 2008.
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Imam Ragheb Harb, who came from southern Lebanon and was one of the founders of Hezbollah, was killed by the Israeli army in 1984.
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[8]
Abu Khalil 1991.
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Hamzeh 1993.
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[10]
Alagha 2006.
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[11]
Lamloum 2009.
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Harb 2010.
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Hollis and Shehadi 1996.
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[14]
Meier 2009.
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See Franck Mermier and Élizabeth Picard (eds.), Liban, une guerre de 33 jours (Paris: La Découverte, 2006) (editor’s note).
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Saad Hariri is the son of former prime minister Rafic Hariri (editor’s note).
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More broadly, the agreement led to the lifting of other institutional blockages, including on the appointment of the President of the Republic and the return to a basic consensus between the parties. See Berthelot (2011).
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In the summer of 2011, the STL also indicted four members of Hezbollah.
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I refer here to the translation and analysis in Alagha (2011).
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Clashes broke out in Saida as a result of violent retaliation by the army, which had been deployed to dismantle Sheikh Assir’s militia. See The Daily Star, June 25, 2013.
The use of tools from political science, sociology, and history may allow us to venture beyond preconceived ideas about Hezbollah, even as the European Union has just placed the “Party of God” on its list of terrorist organizations. We explore the influence of Shi‘i Islam in the politico-religious ideology of the movement, its relationship with Iran, its social base, its capacity for military resistance, and its views on the Lebanese state
Les outils de la science politique, de la sociologie et de l’histoire permettent de sortir des idées préconçues, alors que l’Union européenne vient d’inscrire le « parti de Dieu » sur la liste des organisations terroristes. Quel sont le poids de l’islam chiite dans l’idéologie politico-religieuse du mouvement, son rapport avec l’Iran, son assise sociale, sa capacité de résistance militaire et ses vues sur l’État libanais ?