The Appeal of Communism among the Lebanese Shiʿa, 1943-75
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Jehan Al-Azzawi
Leiden
Brill
This article revisits the Shiʿi community's secular past through an analysis of the evolution of Shiʿi involvement in the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP). It argues that the Shiʿi community's communist interlude was a formative moment in the political mobilization of the Shiʿa, which predated the rise of distinctly Shiʿi political identities, and imparted a lasting legacy on the political development of the Lebanese Shiʿa.