Martyrology and Conceptions of Time in Hizbullah's Writing Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8968669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bashir Saade (0009-0007-1392-5300, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 723-744 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743815000951 |
| OpenAlex | W2500260260 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
Soon after its founding in the early 1980s, the Lebanese political organization Hizbullah developed a specific practice of remembering its dead. In this article, I argue that through this practice Hizbullah constructed an elaborate conception of time and history that gave ideological coherence to the movement's main political project, al-muqāwama al-islāmiyya (Islamic Resistance). Examining early writings in the Hizbullah weekly al-ʿAhd published during the organization's formative period, I show how such writings were instrumental in producing ideological templates that have continued to be replicated until today. Through a set of ritualistic practices, Hizbullah-affiliated intellectuals have archived everything related to martyrs and other kinds of human legacies, a process that has fed into the notion of an ever-present, and at times anticipated, era ( ʿahd ) of resistance. Moreover, the project of Islamic Resistance has gained salience each time the past is relived in the present, producing political action. Hizbullah's efforts at history writing have involved a transmission of ethics through martyrs' act of witnessing and their testimony to a way of life. Analyzing this phenomenon sheds light on the way political Islamic groups such as Hizbullah articulate national imaginaries through specific kinds of ideological production
Ideology · Islam · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society
Iran
Memory, History, Forgetting
The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology
Martyrdom in Islam
Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine
Hizbullah's Identity Construction
Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon
Le Hezbollah
A Secular Age
On Collective Memory
Calligraphic State
Why Things Matter to People
Genealogies of Religion
Formations of the Secular
Public and Private Memory of the Lebanese Civil War
An Iranian Martyr’s Dilemma
Les larmes et le sang des chiites
Ideology and political theory
Living Ashura in Lebanon
Culture in Action
Conceptualizing Culture
L'histoire sociale du Hezbollah à travers ses médias
Emulating and/or embodying the ideal
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |