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Summary
Summary
Iran and Lebanon have touched each other's fortunes, on religious, political, and cultural levels, for over 500 years. Iran and Lebanon is the first definitive study of the centuries-long contact between these countries, and provides the only basis for any understanding of their effect on the world today.
Author Notes
Houchang Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University, and
Reviews 1
Choice Review
The book is divided into three parts: "Iran and Pre-Independence Lebanon," "Pahlavi Iran and the First Republic," and the "Islamic Republic and Hizbullah." Nearly half the articles are by editor Chehabi (international relations and history, Boston Univ.). Some essays overlap in data, others are replete with minutiae, rendering the process of understanding very difficult. The authors focus on the 500-year relationship between Shi'ite Safavids in the 16th century and the Shi`ites of Jabal`Amil in South Lebanon, who provided many of the clerics of Shi`ite Persia. Authors attribute the radicalization of the Lebanese Shi'ite community to the work of Musa Sadr, "the iconic Iranian cleric" of Lebanese ancestry who was instrumental in raising political consciousness in South Lebanon. The Lebanese civil war invited Iran to play an influential role in the Lebanese Shi`ite community by funding and supporting the evolvement of Hizbullah. This work is the first definitive study of the interaction between the Shi`ites of Lebanon and successive Iranian regimes, providing clues to Iran's future political and international course in the wake of Khomeini's Islamic revolution. There is no separate bibliography, making it difficult to keep track of the rich Persian and Western sources, except in textual context. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. C. E. Farah University of Minnesota
