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Weiss - In the Shadows of Sectarianism [d0aeb1c0]

Tags: books, sectarianism

  • Puts forward a different typology of "sectarianism" that doesn't restrict it to one identity
  • Underlying understanding of sectarianism is that it is the polar opposite of state building

  • Argues that sectarianization of the Lebanese Shi'a communities during the french mandate in lebanon was pushed both

    • above: form of elite and colonial divide and rule
    • below: sect-specific rights and religious recongition
  • argues that we cannot blame sectarianism as a pure product of colonialism