1.1 Introduction

1.2 Aim and questions
1.3 Approaching the aim
1.4 Sources of information
1.5 Structure of the essay

2.2 Formal structures: the political formula of confessionalism
2.3 The Arab-Israeli conflict and prelude to civil war
2.4 External actors: the roles of Syria and Israel
2.5 Breaking the tide: the Israeli invasion of 1982

3.1 The Rise and the Roar of the Shia

3.2 Why did the Shia of Lebanon mobilize?
3.3 Misery and growing demands
3.4 Sayyed Musa and the paradigm of the Shia
3.5 Further radicalization

4.1 The Israeli Invasion of 1982: Things Change

4.2 The reaction: the emergence of the resistance
4.3 The fight for domination: withdrawals and reunions

5.1 Hizballah: Islam as a Resistance and Solution

5.2 The ideological platform: The "Open Letter" to the World
5.3 The rule and regional activism of Ayatollah Khomeini
5.4 The Islamic posture of Hizballah
5.5 Hizballah contra Amal: an analyse of discourse
5.6 Years of war and means of violence
5.7 Conflict with Amal and prelude to change

6.1 A New Order: the Era of the Ta'if Accord

6.2 Implementation and outcome

7.1 Hizballah: Facing the Change

7.2 Joining the Syrian frame
7.3 Challenging the "peace"-process
7.4 The Islamic Resistance: the imperative to fight for liberation
7.5 Raising the resisting society
7.6 Heading forward

Summary and Conclusion

References and Bibliography

Books and articles
Newspapers and periodicals
List of informants in Beirut