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Pensée 4: Moving Beyond Orientalist Fantasy, Sectarian Polemic, and Nationalist Denial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2008

Ussama Makdisi
Ussama Makdisi*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Rice University, Houston, Tex., USA; e-mail: [email protected]
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The notion of sectarianism can be useful in understanding the Middle East. As in India and Ireland, sectarian (or communal) identities have been crucial to the elaboration of modern politics in many parts of the region. Unlike India and Ireland today, however, the Middle East is subject to American domination. The result is that the study of Middle Eastern sectarianism is extraordinarily politicized. As scholars struggle to study sectarianism in such a climate, they need to recognize—and, ideally, find a way to move beyond—several problematic assumptions.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , November 2008 , pp. 559 - 560
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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