Religious Minorities in the Middle East

Biographical note Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

x, 370 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Anh Nga Longva is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen (Norway). She has published extensively on minority issues in Norway, the Arab Gulf, and Lebanon.
Anne Sofie Roald is Professor in Religious Studies and Senior Researcher and former head of the research program Politics of Faith at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. Her publications deal mainly with gender issues, conversion, multiculturalism, Islamism, and Arab media.
Contributors include: Maurits H. van den Boogert, Nazlı Çağın Bilgili, Ali Çarkoğlu, Grégoire Delhaye, Kais M. Firro, Bård Kårtveit, Catherine Le Thomas, Anh Nga Longva, Laurence Louër, Elizabeth Picard, Annika Rabo, Anne Sofie Roald, Eliz Sanasarian, Michael Stausberg, and Margot Warburg

List of Contributors
Preface

Introduction: Domination, Self-empowerment, Accommodation, Anh Nga Longva

PART I: NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES
1. Millets: Past and Present, Maurits H. van den Boogert
2. From the Dhimma to the Capitulations: Memory and Experience of Protection in Lebanon, Anh Nga Longva
3. Contemporary Muslim-Christian Relations in Egypt: Local Dynamics and Foreign Influences, Grégoire Delhaye
4. Land, Law, and Family Protection in the West Bank, Bård Kårtveit
5. Conviviality and Conflict in Contemporary Aleppo, Annika Rabo
6. Freedom of Religion in Sudan, Anne Sofie Roald
7. From Power to Powerlessness: Zoroastrianism in Iranian History. Michael Stausberg
8. Bahaʾis of Iran: Power, Prejudices, and Persecution, Margit Warburg

PART II: MUSLIM MINORITIES
9. Shiʿi Identity Politics in Saudi Arabia, Laurence Louër
10. Nationalism and Confessionalism: Shiʿis, Druzes and Alawis in Syria and Lebanon, Kais M. Firro
11. Education and Minority Empowerment in the Middle East, Catherine Le Thomas
12. Alevis in Turkish Politics, Ali Çarkoğlu and Nazlı Çağın Bilgili
13. Nationalism and Religion in Contemporary Iran, Eliz Sanasarian

Conclusion: Nation-Building and Minority Rights in the Middle East, Elizabeth Picard

Index

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