L’“Harirismo” in Libano: ascesa e declino di un fenomeno sociopolitico

Rafiq Hariri, an emblematic but highly controversial figure in Lebanon, was the pivot of a new political phenomenon, the ‘Harirism’. In a relative short period of time Hariri was able to create a financial and political empire mostly based upon his familiar network. This process was completed in the frame of the Sunni community, the belonging community of Hariri, through a process of ‘Harirification’ of Sunnism. After the Hariri’s assassination in 2005 was the Hariri dynasty, especially in the figure of Saad Hariri-son of Rafiq, able to keep alive the Harirism? This paper aims to reflect upon the Harirism and the Sunnism in Lebanon, especially after the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in 2011