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Understanding 'Sectarianism': Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World
Contributor(s): Haddad, Fanar (Author)

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 ISBN: 0197510620     ISBN-13: 9780197510629
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $36.05  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Social Science | Gerontology
LCCN: 2020288312
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" L (1.30 lbs) 272 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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Sectarianism is one of the most over-discussed yet under-analyzed concepts in debates about the Middle East. Despite the deluge of commentary, there is no agreement on what sectarianism is. Is it a social issue, one of dogmatic incompatibility, a historic one or one purely related to modern
power politics? Is it something innately felt or politically imposed? Is it a product of modernity or its antithesis? Is it a function of the nation-state or its negation?

This 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. How are Sunni and Shi'a identities imagined, experienced and negotiated and how do they relate
to and interact with other identities?

Looking at the modern history of the Arab world, Haddad seeks to understand sectarian identity not as a monochrome frame of identification but as a multi-layered concept that operates on several dimensions: religious, subnational, national and transnational. Far from a uniquely Middle Eastern, Arab,
or Islamic phenomenon, a better understanding of sectarian identity reveals that the many facets of sectarian relations that are misleadingly labelled sectarianism are echoed in intergroup relations worldwide.
 
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