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Shiism and politics in the Middle East, Laurence Louer ; translated from French by John King

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-150) and index

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Shiism and politics in the Middle East

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Laurence Louer ; translated from French by John King

Introduction. Shiism : the key to regional realignment. -- 1. The clergy : a key element. The training and organisation of the clergy. -- Najaf and Qom : Shiism's twin cradles. -- The clergy and politics : permanent revolution? -- Shia political Islam at the heart of the clerical institution in Iraq. -- Factional quarrels. -- The Iranian clergy and the state. -- Clergy and laity : a "structuring cleavage". -- 2. Transnational networks. Al-Daʻwa on the national and transnational plane. -- The Najaf connection in Lebanon and Bahrain. -- The marja'iyya and the merchant notability of the Gulf. -- Suppression and exile. -- The Shirazists : the other transnational network. -- Musa al-Sadr in Lebanon : a family story -- 3. The Islamic Republic of Iran : a Disputed model. The export of the revolution by the Shirazists. -- Iran's policy in Lebanon : the birth of Hezbollah. -- Hezbollah as a transnational network. -- Iranian foreign policy and the Shia movements. -- The Shia movements and quarrels within the marjaʻiyya. -- Iran : the pros and the antis -- 4. The post Saddam era. The Iraqi Shia movements and Iran from 2003 : from ideology to tactics. -- The reasons for conflict between Sunnis and Shias in Bahrain. -- The Shias as supporters of the throne in Saudi Arabia. -- Lebanon : the stumbling block for the dynamic of domestification? -- Conclusion: Towards the secularisation of Shia political Islam. The gap widens between clerics and laymen. -- The marjaʻiyya in politics. -- The rise of millenarianism