Shiism and politics in the Middle East /
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| Language: | English |
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New York [N.Y.] :
Columbia University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Comparative politics and international studies series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Shiism : the key to regional realignment
- 1. The clergy : a key element. The training and organisation of the clergy ; Najaf and Qom : Shiism's twin cradles ; The clergy and politics : permanent revolution? ; Shia political Islam at the heart of the clerical institution in Iraq ; Factional quarrels ; The Iranian clergy and the state ; Clergy and laity : a "structuring cleavage"
- 2. Transnational networks. Al-Daʻwa on the national and transnational plane ; The Najaf connection in Lebanon and Bahrain ; The marja'iyya and the merchant notability of the Gulf ; Suppression and exile ; The Shirazists : the other transnational network ; Musa al-Sadr in Lebanon : a family story
- 3. The Islamic Republic of Iran : a Disputed model. The export of the revolution by the Shirazists ; Iran's policy in Lebanon : the birth of Hezbollah ; Hezbollah as a transnational network ; Iranian foreign policy and the Shia movements ; The Shia movements and quarrels within the marjaʻiyya ; Iran : the pros and the antis
- 4. The post Saddam era. The Iraqi Shia movements and Iran from 2003 : from ideology to tactics ; The reasons for conflict between Sunnis and Shias in Bahrain ; The Shias as supporters of the throne in Saudi Arabia ; Lebanon : the stumbling block for the dynamic of domestification?
- Conclusion: Towards the secularisation of Shia political Islam. The gap widens between clerics and laymen ; The marjaʻiyya in politics ; The rise of millenarianism.ʻ