Beyond Sunni and Shia: The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East
- ISBN-10
- 0190911514
- ISBN-13
- 9780190911515
- Category
- Religion
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-02-01
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Frederic Wehrey
Description
This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict during a period of upheaval in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines how political economy, geopolitics, domestic governance, social media, non- and sub-state groups, and clerical elites have affected the transformation and diffusion of sectarian identities. Particular attention is paid to how conflicts over distribution of political and economic power have taken on a sectarian quality, and how a variety of actors have instrumentalized sectarianism. The volume, covering Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, Iran, and Egypt, includes contributors from a broad array of disciplines including political science, history, sociology, and Islamic studies. Beyond Sunni and Shia draws on extensive fieldwork and primary sources to offer insights that are empirically rich and theoretically grounded, but also accessible for policy audiences and the informed public.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2018-02-01
- 409 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press
Similar books
-
Shia Islam and Politics: Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon
By Jon ArmajaniThis book argues that ever since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, which established a Shia Islamic government in Iran, that country’s religious and political leaders, have used Shia Islam as a crucial way of expanding Iran’s ...
-
The Sunni-Shia Conflict: Understanding Sectarian Violence in the Middle East
By Nathan GonzalezMoving beyond tired descriptions of the Middle East as a land of ideological fanatics, Nathan Gonzalez provides an account of the cold political interests behind a conflict that has led to the fight between members of the Sunni and Shia ...
-
Understanding 'Sectarianism': Sunni-Shi'a Relationsin the Modern Arab World
By Fanar HaddadThis book seeks to move the study of modern sectarian dynamics beyond these analytically paralyzing dichotomies by shifting the focus away from the meaningless '-ism' towards the root: sectarian identity.
-
A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is
By John McHugoDefinitive, insightful, and accessible, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is is an essential guide to understanding the genesis, development, and manipulation of the schism that for far too many people has come to define Islam and the ...
-
Contextualizing Sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia: Identity, Competition and Conflict
By Satgin HamrahThis volume seeks to fill gaps in understanding the complexities associated with sectarianism through a transnational interdisciplinary analytical framework to enhance understanding of the socio-political, religio-political, cultural and ...
-
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
By Lesley HazletonMarshall G. S. Hodgson's The Penture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization is a three-volume study of the historical development of Islamic civilization, with numerous tables of time lines. The Classical Age of Islam, ...
-
The Art of Resistance in Islam: The Performance of Politics among Shi'i Women in the Middle East and Beyond
By Yafa ShanneikBased on first-hand ethnographic insights into Shi'i religious groups in the Middle East and Europe , this book examines women's resistance to state as well as communal and gender power structures.
-
The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni Divide
By Geneive AbdoThe ensuing clash--between Islamism and Nationalism, Shi'a and Sunni, and other factions within these communities--
-
Studying Islam in Practice
By Gabriele MarranciThis book presents Islam as a lived religion through observation and discussion of how Muslims from a variety of countries, traditions and views practice their religion.
-
Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings
By Frederic M. WehreyOne of Foreign Policy's Best Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch of The Middle East Channel Beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and concluding with the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, Frederic M. Wehrey investigates the ...