Zaydī revival in a hostile republic: Competing identities, loyalties and visions of state in Republican Yemen.
Abstract The phenomena of identity formation, religious interpretation and political state-building all intersect in post-imamate Yemen and the positions of Zaydīs therein. This paper investigates the identification and loyalty tensions facing Yemen's Zaydī community, examining whether or not a rece...
| Publicado en: | Arabica Vol. 59; no. 3/4; pp. 404 - 446 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=76339419&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 76339419 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 05705398 C0W jtl: Arabica issn: 05705398 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Apr2012 vid: 59 iid: 3/4 pid: 639 pub: Brill Academic Publishers artinfo: ui: 76339419 10.1163/157005812X629301 ppf: 404 ppct: 42 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 521KB tig: atl: Zaydī revival in a hostile republic: Competing identities, loyalties and visions of state in Republican Yemen. aug: au: King, James Robin su: Elite (Social sciences) Nation building Loyalty Zaydīs Democracy Yemen (Republic) sug: subj: Yemen (Republic) Elite (Social sciences) Nation building Loyalty Zaydīs Democracy keyword: conflit uī mahab zaydite réformisme sunnite République du Yémen renouveau zaydite Republic of Yemen Sunnī reformism uī conflict Zaydī mahab Zaydī revivalism Zaydism Zaydisme ab: Abstract The phenomena of identity formation, religious interpretation and political state-building all intersect in post-imamate Yemen and the positions of Zaydīs therein. This paper investigates the identification and loyalty tensions facing Yemen's Zaydī community, examining whether or not a recent revival in Zaydī identity, thought and practice has diminished Zaydīs' loyalties to the Republic of Yemen, which emerged from a state-building project that aimed to reduce mahab allegiances and neutralize the influence of Zaydī religious elites. In Yemen today, practicing Zaydīs (particularly those from historically prominent sayyid families) are forced to navigate a 'good Zaydī-bad Zaydī' typology that treats Zaydī subjectivities and activism as sectarian at best, subversive at worst. This paper explores the efforts of a group of Zaydī scholar-activists to broaden Zaydīs' political, social and theological space to define their composite identifications and loyalties. In the context of the divisive ūī conflict, as well as the nationwide pro-democracy protests against the regime of Alī Abd Allāh āli, these Zaydī leaders are disentangling the regime and certain anti-Zaydī elements of dominant Republican ideology from the state. They assert their right to oppose the former, using both modern discourses and classical Zaydī concepts, within the confines of the latter. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Arabica is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Arabica holder: Brill Academic Publishers dt: @attributes: year: 2012 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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