The Shia Revival (1)
*Faith and identity converge in this (Shia and Sunni) conflict, and their combined power goes a long way toward explaining
why, despite the periods of coexistence, the struggle has lasted so long and retains such urgency and significance. It is not just a hoary religious dispute, a fossilized set-piece from the early years of Islam’s unfolding, but a contemporary clash of identities. It is paradoxically, a very old, very modern conflict.
The dominant political values of the old Middle East are a decades-old vintage of Arab nationalism. The new Middle East coming fitfully into being is defined in equal parts by the identity of Shias.
Ultimately the character of the region will be decided in the crucible of Shia revival and the Sunni response to it.
Ashura’s powerful focus on sorrow and pageantry has a parallel in Catholic Lenten rituals, such as the Holy Week and Good Friday “Way of the Cross” processions and Passion plays. Even the more extreme practices of some of the Shias resemble rituals such as the Penitententes, a lay Catholic brotherhood originally formed on the Iberian Peninsula.
If Sunnism is about law, Shiism is about rituals, passion and drama. Before there was Shia law, there was Shia piety, which defines believers above and beyond law. The current excessive legal-mindedness of Iran’s ayatollahs is in some ways a “Sunnification” of Shiism.
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مرداد 22م, 1386 | 04:27
salam
age emkanesh hast posthatuno be farsi ham bezarid.
merci
مرداد 22م, 1386 | 05:25
clergy and power never let us to live in peace
مرداد 22م, 1386 | 09:44
حاجی من هنوز کتاب ولی نصر رو نخونده ام
نمیدانم این جمله از کتاب است یا نه -که ظاهرا هست-
If Sunnism is about law, Shiism is about rituals
من خیلی با هاش موافق نیستم چون از یکطرف شیعه را به مناسک کاسته است و از طرف دیگر مناسک شیعه را بعنوان یک مراسم صرف مذهبی محدود کرده
در هر صورت این جریان جدید وبلاگ شما را به
HAJI’S REVIEW OF BOOKS
بدل کرده است که خیلی عالی است
من که حال میکنم
ولی بد نیست بخشی از متن ها را فارسی بنویسی چون در هر صورت وبلاگ شما به زبان فارسی است
مرداد 22م, 1386 | 14:31
Well, the guy is Hossien Nasr’s son and a fellow in Council on foreign relations .I just got the article and i think it is not an american conspiracy as hamid dabbashi claims.The shia and sunni conflict dates back to the twilights of Islam itself.I think the shia case is much complicated than what the young fellow says .I don’t know whether he has ever traveled to Qom or Karbala or Najaf?But the literature of the book
shows it is a little bit scholastically theoric .Anyway his father was a big man and the grand allamme tabatabaiis disciple.Perhaps ,just perhaps Nasr the senior was behind the theories too.