{"title":"“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran” <b>“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran”</b> , by Kusha Sefat, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, May 23 2023, 184 pp., $29.95 (paperback)","authors":"Ehssan Hanif","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2266652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2266652","url":null,"abstract":"\"“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran”.\" British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135646270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran","authors":"Alireza Raisi","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2251120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2251120","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTDespite a growing body of analyses on sectarian tensions in the MENA, few have examined the impact of sectarian attitudes on public opinion towards the regional powers. Drawing from a statistical analysis of public opinion polls and the case study of Egypt and Sudan, the paper examines determinants of public attitudes towards Iran in the post-Arab spring era. The analysis indicates that public attitudes towards the regional player, i.e. Iran influenced by the alliance in the MENA. Although the Arab spring fuelled the negative sentiments towards Iran in the allies of Saudi Arabia, strong ties between Iran and the Islamist rule shaped positive attitudes towards Iran in Sudan. The analysis further reveals the impact of Salafi’s anti-Iran campaigns in Egypt. This campaign utilizes negative symbolism and ethnoreligious myths to depict Shias as an enemy and construct an existential threat from Iran. In this environment, the symbolic politics and emotionally laden hatred in the Arab countries explain the sectarian attitudes towards Shias and Iran. AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to thank Nukhet Sandal, and Aisha Ahmad for their cogent comments on the earlier draft of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2251120.Notes1 This growing body of analysis led some scholar to argue that term of sectarianism has lost its analytic effectiveness. As a result, sectarianism needs more specific adjectives such as doctrinal, subnational, national, transnational Haddad, F. (2020). Understanding ‘Sectarianism’: Sunni-Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World, Oxford University Press, U.S.A.2 This meta-study of new studies of sectarianism in the MENA develops a typology of three groups of studies. The first group completely rejects the existing primordialism and instrumentalism views. The second approach tries to adopt certain elements from each of these existing views, and the third view calls for analytical eclecticism. Valbjørn, M. (2020). ‘Beyond the beyond (s): On the (many) third way (s) beyond primordialism and instrumentalism in the study of sectarianism’. Nations and Nationalism 26(1): 91–107.3 Köse, T., et al. (2016). ‘A comparative analysis of soft power in the MENA region: the impact of ethnic, sectarian, and religious identity on soft power in Iraq and Egypt’. Foreign Policy Analysis 12(3): 354–373.4 Ciftci, S. and G. M. Tezcür (2016). ‘Soft power, religion, and anti-Americanism in the Middle East’. Foreign Policy Analysis 12(3): 374–394.5 Telhami, S. (2013). The world through Arab eyes: Arab public opinion and the reshaping of the Middle East, Basic Books (AZ).6 Kamrava, M. and Dorzadeh, H. (2020). Arab Opinion Toward Iran 2019/2020. Doha Qatar, The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.7 Ibid.8 Tajfel, H., et al. (1979). ‘An integrative theory of intergroup confli","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136279809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey","authors":"A. Szymański, A. Cihangiroğlu","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2251140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2251140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49250004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutional resilience in Modern Iranian Shiʿism: solidification of the ḥawza ʿilmīya of Qum between 1961 and 1979","authors":"Mohammad Mesbahi","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2251113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2251113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42512503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians","authors":"T. Baarda","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2233218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2233218","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43608902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’","authors":"H. Godazgar, H. Mirzaei","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2235132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2235132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45439167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Missionaries as Humanitarian Mediators after the 1860 troubles in Lebanon","authors":"Chantal Verdeil","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2233215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2233215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43479337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Martyrdom, mysticism and dissent: the poetry of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988)","authors":"Behnam M. Fomeshi","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2022.2080399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2022.2080399","url":null,"abstract":"includes the conjoint points and parts that fed each other. However, he could have used more examples to put his views on more solid foundations in the last two chapters. Overall, Malešević makes a remarkable and original contribution to the literature on nationalism. Grounded Nationalisms is not a book for only scholars of nationalism, but also it is a guidebook for readers interested in historical sociology.","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139351308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}