The ideological basis of the Lebanese Hezbollah

Abstract

Lebanese Hizballah ('Party of God') is ideologically correlated with Islamic Republic of Iran and thus Hizballah seems to be one of crucial element in the modern understanding of Shia doctrine wilaya al-faqih. However there are three more 'components' consisting of ideological foundation of Hizballah. They are: idea of jihad, panislamism which is a problematic issue in the view of Shia doctrine and dualistic perception of the world, as ayatollah Khomeini pointed, opressors and oppressed with the duty of fight all the opressors including Israel, West and unfaithful Muslim regimes.