ISBN:
9780190942953
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 409 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Series Statement:
Political Science
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.6970956
Keywords:
Religious discrimination
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Religious discrimination
;
Muslims Ethnic identity
;
Naher und Mittlerer Osten und Nordafrika Religion
;
Religiöser Konflikt
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Beziehungen zwischen religiösen Gruppen/Religionsgemeinschaften
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Religiöse Bevölkerungsgruppe
;
Sunniten
;
Schiiten
;
Konfliktursachen/Konfliktanlass
;
Radikalisierung
;
Kollektive Identität
;
Near and Middle East and North Africa Religion
;
Religious conflicts
;
Interfaith relations
;
Religious population groups
;
Sunni Muslims
;
Shiite Muslims
;
Causes of conflicts
;
Radicalisation
;
Collective identity
;
Religiöser Fundamentalismus Religiöse Bewegung
;
Militanter Islam
;
Arabischer Nationalismus
;
Religious fundamentalism Religious movements
;
Militant Islam
;
Arab nationalism
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Religious discrimination ; Middle East
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Religious discrimination ; Africa, North
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Muslims ; Ethnic identity
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Middle East ; Ethnic relations
;
Africa, North ; Religion
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Middle East Ethnic relations
;
Africa, North Religion
Abstract:
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 instrumentalised 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.
Note:
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2019
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190876050.001.0001
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