Bibliography 2: #BIB38495

Key	BIB38495
Reference type	Book
Title	Know Thy Enemy : Evolving Attitudes Towards "Others" in Modern Shiʻi Thought and Practice
Series title	Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
Author	Litvak, Meir
Year	2021
Publisher	E. J. Brill
Place published	Leiden ; Boston
Issue	10.
ISBN	9789004439207 1385-3376
Abstract	In Know Thy Enemy, Meir Litvak analyzes the re-articulations of the "Others" in modern Shiʻism, as a novel way to examine the formulation of modern Shiʻi identity and place in the world. Among these others, which have transformed into "enemies" in the modern period are the West, apostates, Wahhabism, Jews, Baha'is and feminism. Looking at the rhetorical themes that Shiʻi writers use, the book demonstrates the contrast between the collective positive "We" and the negative threatening "Other" as a major principle in the evolution of Shiʻism as the minority branch of Islam. It offers a complex view of Shiʻi identity combining a sense of victimhood and insecurity together with conviction of intellectual and moral superiority and long-term triumph.
Notes	Bahá'í Faith: Chapter 6, "The Deviationist and Misguided Bahāʾī Sect", pp. 234-266; possibly other pages. LCCN 2020052245. Includes index. Introduction -- 1. From Westoxication to the Decline of the West -- 2. The Jews as Enemies of Shīʻīsm -- 3. Extending a Hand to “Our Sunnī Brethren" -- 4. Anti-Wahhābī and Jihādī-Salafī Polemics: from Apologetics to Denunciation -- 5. Liberty and Its Boundaries vis-à-vis Dissent and Apostasy -- 6. The Deviationist and Misguided Bahāʼī Sect -- 7. Feminism: The “Gift” of the West to Islam -- Conclusion -- List of Sources -- Index.
Language	English
Keywords	SHIAH; RELATIONS; OTHERING; PERSECUTION
Number of pages	ix, 385
Series volume	126
Call number	BP194.15 .L58 2021
Accession number	21802796
File attachments	internal-pdf://2036294072/Litvak - Know Thy Enemy Ch6 - Deviationist Mis.pdf

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