Volume 33, Number 15 · October 9, 1986
The Road Not Taken
By Edward Mortimer
The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon
by Fouad Ajami
Cornell University Press, 228 pp., $17.95
Beirut, 1963: a Muslim secondary-school classroom, full of eager young Arab nationalists in their final year. The visitor, a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, recent immigrant to Lebanon from Iran, doesn't arouse much interest—even if (with hindsight at least) 'there was something special about him. He cut a striking figure. His looks—he was a very tall man—his aura, and the neatness of his clerical attire marked him as someone different.'
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