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Table of Contents:

• 1. lmposed States
• Ancient Bahrain: Outlines of a History
• From History to Myth
• Patterns of Shia Political Mobilization in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
• 2. The Shias in the Ambit of the State
• The Shias in the Formation of the Kuwaiti State
• Modes of Politicization
• 3. Meanwhile in Iraq
• The Formation of a Central Religious Authority
• The Hawza in Iraqi Politics
• The Shiraziyyin: Religious Factionalism and Political Activism
• From Pre-Nationalism to Trans-Nationalism
• 4. From Irag to the Gulf
• Acting through the Institution: Al-Da'wa
• Circumventing the Institution: the Shiraziyyin
• The Reproduction of Marja'iyya Factionalism
• The Case of Saudi Arabia
• 5. Societies Face the Islamic Revolution
• Insurrectionary Politics in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
• Kuwait: The Birth of a Shia Opposition

• 6. Exporting the Revolution
• The Predicament of Exile Politics
• From al-Da'wa to Hezbollah
• 7. Politics is Domestic
• New Political Opportunities
• The Fall of the Ba'th in Iraq: Back to Shia Transnationalism?
• 8. Towards Secularization?
• The Expansion of the Marja'iyya Transnational Networks
• The Professionalization of Politics
• Religious Authority and Political Decision: Two Case Studies in Bahrain.

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Author/Creator:

Louër, Laurence

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Transnational Shia politics: religious and political networks in the Gulf [by Louër, L.]

Related Series:

CERI series in comparative politics and international studies

Subjects:

Shīʻah — Political aspects

Islam and state — Persian Gulf Region

Shīʻah

Islam and state

Persian Gulf Region

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-315) and index.

Physical Description:

vii, 326 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Call Numbers:

BP194.185 .L68 2008

ISBNs:

9780231700405 (cloth, alk. paper)
0231700407 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008028875

OCLC Numbers:

184821752