{"product_id":"understanding-sectarianism-fanar-haddad-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fanar Haddad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197510620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197510629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d","brand":"Fanar Haddad","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43983682404607,"sku":"9780197510629","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85757f69-f15c-488e-9188-19f6d94fe0f9.jpg?v=1683268107","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/understanding-sectarianism-fanar-haddad-9780197510629","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}