A Casuistic explanation to Hizbullah’s realpolitik: Interpreting the re-interpreted

• Authors: Mariam Farida
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The recent development unfolding in the Arab region forces the observer into the question of security and stability. The Middle East region has been coined with violence and transformations with the growing inability to bring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an end. The history of Lebanon is not separate from the surrounding danger. For that end, Hizbullah has pushed Lebanon into the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. This article investigates the role Hizbullah plays amidst regional conflicts, and its ability to stand out as a religio-political party able to face the Israeli aggression and withstand its religious identity. Interestingly, this has been a key to the Party’s success, where the Party’s religious identity and politics go hand in hand. As such, this paper offers the reader an analysis of how Hizbullah uses religion to its favour, and how religion (specifically Shi’ism) offers a ground for political pragmatism to be justified.

Keywords

EN

Hizbullah; Casuistry; Shi’ites of Lebanon; Shi’ism; Lebanon; Welayet El-Faqih; Middle East

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 167-178

Dates

published

2015-10-01

received

2014-10-01

accepted

2015-01-28

online

2015-10-30

Contributors

author

Mariam Farida

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2015-0016