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The article discusses how the question of Palestine was already debated by a Shi'i cleric in Iraq during the 1940s. It demonstrates that Shi'is began to integrate into the newly emerged nation-states and began embracing the ideologies of the day.
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The article is important since Shi'i interest in Palestine tends to be associated with later events and particularly with the worldview of the Islamic republic of Iran and the ideology of Hizbullah in Lebanon.
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This page is a summary of: An initial Shiʿa debate on the Palestinian question, Middle Eastern Studies, June 2022, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2022.2083110.
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