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100 1 Louër, Laurence.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n2003059994
245 10 Transnational Shia politics :|breligious and political
networks in the Gulf /|cLaurence Louër.
264 1 New York :|bColumbia University Press ;|aParis :|bIn
Association with the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches
Internationales,|c[2008]
264 4 |c©2008
300 vii, 326 pages :|bmaps ;|c23 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
490 1 Series in comparative politics and international studies
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-315) and
index.
505 0 Imposed states -- The Shias in the ambit of the state --
Meanwhile in Iraq -- From Iraq to the Gulf -- Societies
face the Islamic revolution -- Exporting the revolution --
Politics is domestic -- Towards secularization?
520 Laurence Louer, author of the critically acclaimed To Be
an Arab in Israel, brings her extensive knowledge of the
Middle East to an analysis of the historical origins and
present situation of militant Shia transnational networks.
She focuses on three key countries in the gulf: Kuwait,
Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, whose Shia Islamic groups are
the offspring of various Iraqi movements that have
surfaced over recent decades. Louer explains how these
groups first penetrated local societies by espousing the
networks of Shiite clergymen. She then describes the role
of factional quarrels and the Iranian revolution of 1979
in defining the present landscape of Shiite Islamic
activism in the Gulf monarchies. The reshaping of
geopolitics after the Gulf War and the fall of Saddam
Hussein in April 2003 had a profound impact on
transnational Shiite networks. New political opportunities
encouraged these groups to concentrate on national issues,
such as becoming fierce opponents of the Saudi monarchy.
Yet the question still remains: How deeply have these new
beliefs taken root in Islamic society? Are Shiites Saudi
or Bahraini patriots? Louer's book also considers the
transformation of Shia movements in relation to central
religious authority. While they strive to formulate
independent political agendas, Shia networks remain linked
to religious authorities (marja) who reside either in Iraq
or Iran. This connection becomes all the more problematic
should the marja also be the head of a state, as with
Iran's Ali Khamenei. In conclusion, Louer argues that the
Shia will one day achieve political autonomy, especially
as the marja, in order to retain transnational religious
authority, begin to meddle less and less in the political
affairs of other countries.
650 0 Shīʻah|xPolitical aspects.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
/subjects/sh2010112935
650 0 Islam and state|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
sh85068426|zPersian Gulf Region.|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/subjects/sh85100066-781
650 7 Shīʻah|xPolitical aspects.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
fast/1117954
650 7 Islam and state.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
979890
651 7 Persian Gulf Region.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
1244349
830 0 CERI series in comparative politics and international
studies.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99055229
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