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Since its inception in 1982, Hizbollah has never been an ordinary player in Lebanese local politics. Apart from orchestrating a successful guerilla warfare type of military resistance against Israel, the Party of God—as the translation from Arabic suggests—gradually shifted from being a rigid ideological party seeking to establish an Islamic republic in a sectarian war-torn Lebanon, to a fully fledged integrated political party representing the historically marginalized Shiite community in this complex Middle Eastern country. From this perspective, the party’s evolutionary nature elicited a large body of analysis that aimed to conceptualize Hiz-bollah’s multiple roles, identities and raison d’ëtre (Alagha 2001; Byman 2003; El-Hokayem 2007; Hamzeh 1993, 2004; Harb and Leenders 2005; Harik 2004; Goldberg 2002; Norton 1999, 2008, Saad-Ghorayeb 2002).
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Knio, K. (2009). Conceptualizing Hizbollah’s Transformation in Lebanon’s Post-Cedar Revolution. In: Salih, M.A.M. (eds) Interpreting Islamic Political Parties. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100770_14
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