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Religious minorities in the Middle East : domination, self-empowerment, accommodation / edited by Anh Nga Longva, Anne Sofie Roald.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; v. 108.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004216846
  • 9004216847
  • 1283334828
  • 9781283334822
  • 9786613334824
  • 6613334820
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religious minorities in the Middle East.LOC classification:
  • BL1060 .R448 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction Domination, Self-empowerment, Accommodation; Part I Non-Muslim Minorities; Chapter One Millets: Past and Present; Chapter Two From the Dhimma to the Capitulations: Memory and Experience of Protection in Lebanon; Chapter Three Contemporary Muslim-Christian Relations in Egypt: Local Dynamics and Foreign Influences; Chapter Four Land, Law, and Family Protection in the West Bank; Chapter Five Conviviality and Conflict in Contemporary Aleppo; Chapter Six Freedom of Religion in Sudan
Chapter Seven From Power to Powerlessness: Zoroastrianism in Iranian HistoryChapter Eight Baha'is of Iran: Power, Prejudices and Persecutions; Part II Muslim Minorities; Chapter Nine Shi'i Identity Politics in Saudi Arabia; Chapter Ten Nationalism and Confessionalism: Shi'is, Druzes and Alawis in Syria and Lebanon; Chapter Eleven Education and Minority Empowerment in the Middle East; Chapter Twelve Alevis in Turkish Politics; Chapter Thirteen Nationalism and Religion in Contemporary Iran; Conclusion Nation-Building and Minority Rights in the Middle East; Index
Summary: Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.
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The result of a workshop held in 2008 in Bergen, Norway and in 2009 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction Domination, Self-empowerment, Accommodation; Part I Non-Muslim Minorities; Chapter One Millets: Past and Present; Chapter Two From the Dhimma to the Capitulations: Memory and Experience of Protection in Lebanon; Chapter Three Contemporary Muslim-Christian Relations in Egypt: Local Dynamics and Foreign Influences; Chapter Four Land, Law, and Family Protection in the West Bank; Chapter Five Conviviality and Conflict in Contemporary Aleppo; Chapter Six Freedom of Religion in Sudan

Chapter Seven From Power to Powerlessness: Zoroastrianism in Iranian HistoryChapter Eight Baha'is of Iran: Power, Prejudices and Persecutions; Part II Muslim Minorities; Chapter Nine Shi'i Identity Politics in Saudi Arabia; Chapter Ten Nationalism and Confessionalism: Shi'is, Druzes and Alawis in Syria and Lebanon; Chapter Eleven Education and Minority Empowerment in the Middle East; Chapter Twelve Alevis in Turkish Politics; Chapter Thirteen Nationalism and Religion in Contemporary Iran; Conclusion Nation-Building and Minority Rights in the Middle East; Index

Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.

English.

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