{"product_id":"understanding-sectarianism-sunni-shia-relations-in-the-modern-arab-world-9780197510629","title":"Understanding 'Sectarianism': Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"Sectarianism\" is one of the most over-discussed yet under-analyzed concepts in debates about the Middle East. Despite the deluge of commentary, there is no agreement on what \"sectarianism\" is. Is it a social issue, one of dogmatic incompatibility, a historic one or one purely related to modern power politics? Is it something innately felt or politically imposed? Is it a product of modernity or its antithesis? Is it a function of the nation-state or its negation? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book seeks to move the study of modern sectarian dynamics beyond these analytically paralyzing dichotomies by shifting the focus away from the meaningless '-ism' towards the root: sectarian identity. How are Sunni and Shi'a identities imagined, experienced and negotiated and how do they relate to and interact with other identities? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking at the modern history of the Arab world, Haddad seeks to understand sectarian identity not as a monochrome frame of identification but as a multi-layered concept that operates on several dimensions: religious, subnational, national and transnational. Far from a uniquely Middle Eastern, Arab, or Islamic phenomenon, a better understanding of sectarian identity reveals that the many facets of sectarian relations that are misleadingly labelled \"sectarianism\" are echoed in intergroup relations worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFanar Haddad is Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSectarianism in Iraq\u003c\/em\u003e, also available from Oxford University Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50368806977810,"sku":"9780197510629","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82174607-7017-4203-abcc-1cf15a7eee7f.jpg?v=1728514926","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/understanding-sectarianism-sunni-shia-relations-in-the-modern-arab-world-9780197510629","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}