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Author Bishārah, ʻAzmī, author

Title Sectarianism without sects / Azmi Bishara
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 421 pages)
Summary This volume analyses the transformation of social sectarianism into political sectarianism across the Arab world. Using a framework of social theories and socio-historical analysis, the book distinguishes between 'ta'ifa', or 'sect', and modern 'ta'ifiyya', 'sectarianism', arguing that sectarianism itself produces 'imaginary sects'. It charts and explains the evolution of these phenomena and their development in Arab and Islamic history, as distinct from other concepts used to study religious groups within Western contexts
Notes Also issued in print: 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Communalism -- Arab countries
Sects -- Arab countries -- History
Sects -- Social aspects
Religion and state.
Religion and politics.
Secularism.
Sects -- Social aspects -- Arab countries
Religion and politics -- Arab countries
Communalism.
Religion and politics.
Religion and state.
Sects.
Secularism.
Arab countries.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780197610886
0197610889
Other Titles Ṭāʼifah, al-ṭāʼifīyah, al-ṭawāʼif al-mutakhayyalah. English