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{"title":"Do Shia-Sunni Tensions Affect Iranian-Saudi Relations?","authors":"M. A. Podrezov","doi":"10.24833/2541-8831-2023-2-26-50-62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2023-2-26-50-62","url":null,"abstract":"Today the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia is one of the defining factors in the Middle East political arena. The Islamic world's division into Shiite and Sunni is often considered a factor affecting bilateral relations between Tehran and Riyadh. Iran positions itself as the center of gravity for all the Shiites in the region, while Saudi Arabia seeks to form an anti-Iranian alliance on a Sunni basis. This article assesses the impact of the doctrinal tensions between these two branches of Islam on the Iranian approach towards its relations with Saudi Arabia. For this purpose, the author analyses the rhetoric of Iranian officials, clerics, and state-run media in the context of the main concepts of the Iranian contemporary religious ideology. The author concludes that criticism of Saudi Arabia has lost its religious connotation and Tehran does not position its confrontation with Riyadh as a fight against the enemies of Islam or apostates. The traditional epithets classifying their holders as supporters of the forces of darkness and actively used against the Western countries and Israel are not cited by critics of the Saudi dynasty. Moreover, the criticism of Wahhabism as a religious movement is not linked to the kingdom's current political leadership. On the contrary, the Iranian criticism of the Saudi foreign and domestic policies focuses on condemning the Saudi authorities' infringement on human rights and media freedom, supporting the protest movement in Iran, and fighting the Houthis. Even the persecution of Shiites in Saudi Arabia, to which the Iranian press has devoted considerable attention, is viewed from the perspective of the global concept of human rights, rather than as the struggle of one religious group against another. The kingdom itself is not considered an ideological enemy of Iran, which since the Islamic Revolution has been the US and Israel. The statements by some representatives of the Iranian political establishment on the need for peaceful coexistence between the two countries, along with the March 2023 agreements on normalizing bilateral relations indicate Tehran's pragmatic approach to interaction with Riyadh which is not affected by the ShiaSunni controversy in its dogmatic and religious dimensions.","PeriodicalId":33644,"journal":{"name":"Kontsept filosofiia religiia kul''tura","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135525559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Explicating the Culture of Historiographic Discourse. Does History Have the Subjunctive Mood?","authors":"N. I. Biryukov, N. F. Zheludova","doi":"10.24833/2541-8831-2023-2-26-19-35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2023-2-26-19-35","url":null,"abstract":"History has no subjunctive mood . This cliché has done a lot of harm to the science of history, even though it is usually voiced on its behalf and is presumed to express its basic methodological attitude. However, the maxim obviously disagrees with the practice of historiography as attested by numerous examples or, rather, counterexamples from classical texts, Greek as well as Roman, ancient Chinese as well as modern European, including Russian. Rejection of the subjunctive mood is usually due to the belief that conjectures can serve no positive function in the science of history and, therefore, have no right to appear in historical writings. However, if a serious scholar’s natural distaste for vain speculations turns into a virtual taboo on the study of historic opportunities, one is prone to ask whether this healthy scepticism about the trustworthiness of our cognitive procedures when applied to such fleeting matters as opportunities, possibilities and potentialities would not eventually lead to utter denial of the very existence of options and alternatives other than those actualised, i.e. to full-fledged fatalism. The matter is not that fatalism is unacceptable on both ontological and epistemological grounds, though it is. From the perspective of this paper the matter consists in that fatalism renders the historian’s craft meaningless. For to assert that there is but one reality is one thing, but to allege that this one reality is devoid of alternative opportunities is something dramatically different. It is impossible even to describe, least so understand , the course of events without reference to alternatives. He who ignores alternatives presents a distorted, oversimplified image of the past — an artificial, contrived construct that does not correspond to the past reality. A reality without alternatives is not a reality as it was, hence, any analysis, any explanation based on it or ensuing from it proves inadequate. Past was not devoid of alternative opportunities, and though these are not easy to study, they should not be left unstudied. And they are, indeed, not easy to study, because, unlike opportunities availed of, those unrealised are seldom properly portrayed in our sources. But who says that science is easy?","PeriodicalId":33644,"journal":{"name":"Kontsept filosofiia religiia kul''tura","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135621163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}