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Know Thy Enemy - Evolving Attitudes towards "Others" in Modern Shi'i Thought and Practice (Hardcover)
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Know Thy Enemy - Evolving Attitudes towards "Others" in Modern Shi'i Thought and Practice (Hardcover)
Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, 126
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In Know Thy Enemy, Meir Litvak analyzes the re-articulations of the
"Others" in modern Shi'ism, as a novel way to examine the
formulation of modern Shi'i identity and place in the world. Among
these others, which have transformed into "enemies" in the modern
period are the West, apostates, Wahhabism, Jews, Baha'is and
feminism. Looking at the rhetorical themes that Shi'i writers use,
the book demonstrates the contrast between the collective positive
"We" and the negative threatening "Other" as a major principle in
the evolution of Shi'ism as the minority branch of Islam. It offers
a complex view of Shi'i identity combining a sense of victimhood
and insecurity together with conviction of intellectual and moral
superiority and long-term triumph.
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