By Linda S. Walbridge
With out Forgetting the Imam is an ethnographic examine of the spiritual lifetime of the Lebanese Shi'ites of Dearborn, Michigan, the biggest Muslim neighborhood outdoors of the center East. in keeping with 4 years of fieldwork, this ebook explores how the Lebanese who've emigrated, so much some time past 3 a long time, to the U.S., have tailored to their new atmosphere. Anthropologist Linda Walbridge delves into the ways that politics and faith have converged because the Lebanese Shi'i neighborhood has remade its identification and accommodated itself to a brand new surroundings. She captures a extensive photo of non secular lifestyles in the realm of group residing and in the mosques that have proliferated in Dearborn. Walbridge explains how Shi'ites, affected in a single means or one other by means of Islamic revivalism, have introduced varied notions of ways their faith may be expressed and conducted in the USA.
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Thus, a struggle existed between the old and new strata of society. "16 Essentially, elections were petty rivalries between competing clans in a region and had little to do with any goals for improving the conditions of the people. Ajami writes: "in the district of Bint Jubeil, the Bezzis, one clan whose leader was willing to do anything to get himself elected to Parliament, either defeated their rivals, the Beydouns, or were defeated by them.... "17 The increasing poverty of agricultural villages of the south in the 1960s forced huge migrations of poorly educated Shica to the Beirut slums, where they lived in miserable conditions.
The real growth of Islam in this area actually coincides with the growth of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn. It was to the crowded southeast side of the town, where the Rouge plant dominates the landscape, that large numbers of Muslims, primarily Arab Muslims, migrated and continue to migrate to this day. On the major street of this quarter of Dearborn stands what is now the Yemeni Zaydi Dearborn Mosque. Opened in the 1930s, it was dominated by Sunnis until recently. A year or so after the establishment of this mosque, the Shica rented a hall only a few blocks away.
For the past several years, Harakat Amal and Hizb Allah have fought bitter battles for regions with large Shici populations. Hizb Allah has been largely successful in the Beirut suburbs and has made deep inroads into the Bekaa, while Harakat Amal has held a tenuous control over the south. But it is a mistake to see these organizations as highly structured and orderly. Furthermore, villagers may have strong sympathies with one or another group but never fight under either banner. 21 Life has changed drastically for the Shica of Lebanon since the Lebanese civil war and the Iranian Revolution.
