Shiʻa worlds and Iran / edited by Sabrina Mervin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mervin, Sabrina.

Institut français du Proche-Orient.

Standardized Title:

Mondes chiites et l'Iran. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shīʻah--Political aspects--Middle East.

Shīʻah.

Shīʻah--Political aspects--Iran.

Islam and politics--Middle East--History.

Islam and politics.

Islam and politics--Iran--History.

History.

Shīʻah--Political aspects.

Iran.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

359 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Saint Paul, Minn., USA : Saqi ; [Syria?] : In association with Institut Français du Proche-Orient, 2010.

Contents:

Pt. 1. The export of the revolution and national integrations. The impact of the Iranian revolution on the Middle East / Olivier Roy. Islamism among the Shiʻa of Afghanistan : from social revolution to identity-building / Alessandro Monsutti. The rise and fall of revolutionary utopias in the Gulf Monarchies / Laurence Louër. Hezbollah's conception of the Islamic state / Joseph Alagha. Hezbollah seen through its images : the representation of the martyr / Kanda Chaib

Pt. 2. Constructing Shiʻism. Shi'isms under construction : the Shiʻa community of Turkey in the contemporary era / Thierry Zarcone. Shiʻism in post-Soviet Azerbaijan : between Iranian influence and internal dynamics / Bayram Balci. The Ironis in post-Soviet Uzbekistan : the virtues of mental dissimulation (taqiyya) in a context of Sunnitization / Boris Pétric. Shiʻa Lebanese migrants and Senegalese converts in Dakar / Mara A. Leichman

Pt. 3. Which Iranian model? The Sadrists in Iraq : challenging the United States, the marjaʻiyya and Iran / Pierre-Jean Luizard. The Sadrist trend : class struggle, millenarianism and fitna / Peter Harling and Hamid Yassin Nasser. Between Pakistan and Qom : Shiʻa women's madrasas and new transnational networks / Miriam Abou Zahab. Transnational intellectual debates / Sabrina Mervin.

Notes:

First published in French as: Les mondes chiites et l'Iran by E. Karthala and IFPO, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0863564062

9780863564062

OCLC:

646098853