Contextualizing Sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia

Identity, Competition and Conflict
Herausgeber: Hamrah, Satgin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume seeks to fill gaps in understanding the complexities associated with sectarianism through a transnational interdisciplinary analytical framework to enhance understanding of the socio-political, religio-political, cultural and security landscapes of the Middle East and South Asia.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781032346274
• ISBN-10: 1032346272
• Artikelnr.: 69948369

Autorenporträt

Satgin Hamrah is a PhD Candidate in History at Tufts University, where she focuses on the Middle East, South Asia, the Iran-Iraq War, sectarianism, and Islamism, as well as state and non-state conflict and violence. She also focuses on the intersection of identity, memory, trauma and politics on local and transnational levels within the framework of her research interests. Hamrah has a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Boston University, where her thesis focused on offensive strategies to protect critical infrastructure against terrorism. Hamrah also has a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California, with a focus on international development and state formation of post-Soviet states in the Caspian region during the 1990s with a focus on Azerbaijan. Hamrah was a Doctoral Fellow at The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University between September 2016 and October 2018. She is the founder of the Iran-Iraq War Project.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Untangling the Complexities of Sectarianism and Moving Beyond
Misconceptions 1. Unravelling Sectarianism in South Asia 2. The Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community's Identity as the "True Islam" through its Exclusion 3.
Understanding the Long-term Impact of Mobilizing Militant Islamists in the
Soviet-Afghan War: Strategies of the United States, Saudi Arabia and Iran
4. Advice Columnists in Egypt: Envisioning the Good Life in an Era of
Extremism 5. Sectarianism's Ambiguity: Lebanon as a Case Study, 1843-1958
6. Falling Together: Identity and the Military in Fragmented Societies 7.
Accidentally Accelerating Sectarianism: Elections and the U.S. Role in the
Iraqi Civil War 8. Contextualization of Sectarian Conflict and Violence in
Iraq: The Intersection of Identity, Power and Conflict 9. Sectarianism and
Counterterrorism: Explaining the "Silent Space" between Policy and Practice
10. Old Stately Friends, New Sectarian Foes: The Modern Saudi-Iranian Roots
in Shia-Sunni Sectarianism. Conclusion: The Contextualization of
Sectarianism: The Role of Identity, Money and Competition