The book is based on exclusive interviews with high-profile Shi'i clerics in order to reveal how the Shi'i clerical elite perceives its role and engages in politics today...
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This paper presents the discourse about the religious Other of an influential cleric of the twentieth century, Muḥammad Jawād Maghniyah....
Read More »From Tyre to Tehran: Transnational Links Amongst Lebanese Shi‘a Clerical Families
The contemporary Western view of Lebanese Shi‘a transnational links generally focuses on the political relationship between Hizbullah and Iran. However, while Lebanon and...
Read More »Nigeria to immediately Release Sheikh Zakzaky: Lebanese Clerics
The Association of Lebanon’s Muslim clerics is demanding the immediate release of jailed Nigerian Shia scholar and leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky whose health condition is...
Read More »Palestinian, Lebanese Clerics Boycott ‘Deal of Century’
A group of over 100 Palestinian and Lebanese clerics held a meeting in the Lebanese city of Saida, condemning the American-Israeli plot of Deal of the...
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