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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
The Shia of Saudi Arabia: A Minority in Search of Cultural Authenticity
Beteiligte:
al-Rasheed, Madawi
Erschienen:
Carafax Publishing Company, 1998
Erschienen in:
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 25 (1998) 1, Seite 121-138
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
1469-3542;
1353-0194
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Beschreibung:
<p>This article focuses on the transformation of Saudi Shia resistance from one which centred on military confrontation in the 1980s to one which invokes searching for cultural authenticity (al-asala al-shiiyya) in the 1990s. Today the struggle of the Shia for equal status among the Sunni majority draws attention to the attempts of Shia intellectuals to write their own regional history. Shia intellectuals and opposition leaders deconstruct official representations of themselves and provide alternative historical narratives which anchor their community in Saudi history and society, thus dismissing suggestions that they are a non-indigenous community. This article examines Shia historical narratives in an attempt to understand the transformation in their struggle against discrimination in Saudi Arabia.</p>