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Shiism and Politics in the Middle East (Hardcover, UK ed.)
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Shiism and Politics in the Middle East (Hardcover, UK ed.)
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In this timely book, completed before the current outbreak of
unrest in Bahrain that has formed part of the Arab Spring, Laurence
Louer explains, the background of the Bahraini conflict in the
context of the wider issue of Shiism as a political force in the
Arab Middle East, amongst other issues relating to the role of
Shiite Islamist movements in regional politics. Her study shows how
Bahrain's troubles are a phenomenon based on local perceptions of
injustice rather than on the foreign policy of Shiite Iran. More
generally, the book shows that, though Iran's Islamic Revolution
had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq,
the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, local political imperatives have in the
end been the crucial factor in the direction they have taken. In
addition, the overwhelming influence of the Shiite clerical
institution has been diminished by the rise to prominence of lay
activists within the Shiite movements across the Middle East and
the emergence of Shiite anti-clericalism. This book contributes to
dispelling the myth of the determining power of Iran in the
politics of Iraq, Bahrain and other Arab states with significant
Shiite populations.
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