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"Rougier's impeccable scholarship and profound knowledge of the Arabic-language sources guided his watershed fieldwork in the Sunni Levant years before the rise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. There is no better reading than this milestone book to decipher what is presently at stake in the devastating wave of jihadism we are witnessing today."--Gilles Kepel, Sciences Po, Paris
"This is a rare and wonderful book. Rougier makes a truly original contribution to the study of the modern Middle East."--Roger Owen, author of The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
"This is an extraordinary book by an accomplished scholar. Rougier has been researching in Lebanon for years, and he has established a level of rapport and trust that is quite amazing. There is no other book like this one."--Augustus Richard Norton, author of Hezbollah: A Short History
Review Quotes: "One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books on the Middle East (Lebanon) 2016"