Sectarianism without sects / Azmi Bishara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishārah, ʻAzmī, author.

Standardized Title:

Ṭāʼifah, al-ṭāʼifīyah, al-ṭawāʼif al-mutakhayyalah. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Communalism--Arab countries.

Communalism.

Sects--Arab countries--History.

Sects.

Religion and state.

Religion and sociology.

History.

Arab countries--Ethnic relations.

Arab countries.

Ethnic relations.

Iraq--Ethnic relations.

Iraq.

Physical Description:

xiv, 421 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from Arabic.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. On the Problematic of Sectarianism

2. Mapping Terms: Towards Analytical Conceptualisation

3. Confessionalisation as a Prelude to Sectarianisation

4. Is a Ta'ifa a Community?

5. Firqa and Ijtiraq in Islam

6. Social Conflict, Sects, and Foreign Intervention: The Tanzimat and the Events of 1860

7. Ibn Khaldun's `Asabiyya and Sects'

8. Sectarianism, its Historicity, and Some Ethical Implications

9. Nothing Eternal About It

10. Is Modern Sectarianism a Product of Secularisation?

11. Community to Imagined Community, Social Sectarianism to Political Sectarianism

12. Sectarianism from Popular Participation in the Public Sphere to a Barrier to Participation

13. Majorities, Minorities, and Tolerance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0197602746

9780197602744

OCLC:

1241730271