; In association with Institut Français du Proche-Orient
, 2010.
359 p. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. The export of the revolution and national integrations. The impact of the Iranian revolution on the Middle East / Olivier Roy. Islamism among the Shiʻa of Afghanistan : from social revolution to identity-building / Alessandro Monsutti. The rise and fall of revolutionary utopias in the Gulf Monarchies / Laurence Louër. Hezbollah's conception of the Islamic state / Joseph Alagha. Hezbollah seen through its images : the representation of the martyr / Kanda Chaib -- Pt. 2. Constructing Shiʻism. Shi'isms under construction : the Shiʻa community of Turkey in the contemporary era / Thierry Zarcone. Shiʻism in post-Soviet Azerbaijan : between Iranian influence and internal dynamics / Bayram Balci. The Ironis in post-Soviet Uzbekistan : the virtues of mental dissimulation (taqiyya) in a context of Sunnitization / Boris Pétric. Shiʻa Lebanese migrants and Senegalese converts in Dakar / Mara A. Leichman -- Pt. 3. Which Iranian model? The Sadrists in Iraq : challenging the United States, the marjaʻiyya and Iran / Pierre-Jean Luizard. The Sadrist trend : class struggle, millenarianism and fitna / Peter Harling and Hamid Yassin Nasser. Between Pakistan and Qom : Shiʻa women's madrasas and new transnational networks / Miriam Abou Zahab. Transnational intellectual debates / Sabrina Mervin.