Amal (English spelling)

Japanese: アマル（英語表記）Amal

A political party founded in 1975 by Musa al-Sadr, the supreme Shiite leader in Lebanon. "Amal" means "hope" in Arabic. In Lebanon, where a sectarian system of governance has been established by the National Concordat, power is distributed according to the sectarian population ratio at the time of the establishment of the National Concordat. Although the Shiites became the largest sect in Lebanon in the 1970s, they were not granted sufficient political, social, and economic rights commensurate with this, so they launched a movement (the movement of the deprived) demanding legitimate rights for the Shiites. It first participated as a political party in the 1992 general election. It has a militia organization of the same name.

Amal
Amaru

Indian Sanskrit poet who lived around the 7th or 8th century. Author of the love poem Amaruśataka (A Hundred Odes of Amaru).

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Japanese:

1975年レバノンのシーア派最高指導者ムーサ・サドルによって設立された政党。「アマル」は，アラビア語で「希望」の意味。国民協約によって宗派別統治体制が確立してるレバノンでは，国民協約成立時の宗派別人口比に応じて権力が分配されている。シーア派は 1970年代，レバノン最大の宗派になったものの，それに相当するに十分な政治的，社会的，経済的権利が認められなかったため，シーア派の正当な権利を要求する運動 (奪われた者たちの運動) を展開。 92年の総選挙に政党として初参加。同名の民兵組織をもつ。