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Northern Lebanon is a land in turmoil. Long under the sway of the Assad regime in Syria, it is now a magnet for Sunni Muslim jihadists inspired by anti-Western and anti-Shi'a worldviews. The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East describes in harrowing detail the struggle led by an active minority of jihadist militants, some claiming allegiance to ISIS, to seize control of Islam and impose its rule over the region's Sunni Arab population.Bernard Rougier introduces us to men with links to the mujahidin in Afghanistan, the Sunni resistance in Iraq, al-Qaeda, and ISIS. He describes how they aspire to replace North Lebanon's Sunni elites, who have been attacked and discredited by neighboring powers and jihadists alike, and explains how they have successfully positioned themselves as the local Sunni population's most credible defender against powerful external enemies-such as Iran and the Shi'a militia group Hezbollah. He sheds new light on the methods and actions of the jihadists, their internal debates, and their evolving political agenda over the past decade.This riveting book is based on more than a decade of research, more than one hundred in-depth interviews with players at all levels, and Rougier's extraordinary access to original source material. Written by one of the world's leading experts on jihadism, The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East provides timely insight into the social, political, and religious life of this dangerous and strategically critical region of the Middle East.

Ummah (Islam) --- Sunnites --- Islam and state

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International law (Islamic law) --- Ummah (Islam) --- Territory, National --- Droit international (Droit islamique) --- Ummah (Islam) --- Territoire national --- International law (Islamic law) --- Territory, National. --- Ummah (Islam) --- Islamic countries.

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Trois figures prétendent aujourd'hui incarner l'Oumma — la communauté des croyants — au Moyen-Orient. Le « résistant » se réclame d'un islam révolutionnaire aux accents tiers-mondistes pour réduire l'influence occidentale dans la région. Grâce au soutien de la République islamique d'Iran, il bâtit un appareil de pouvoir qui relie Téhéran aux rives orientales de la Méditerranée. Le « combattant du jihad » s'exprime également au nom d'une Oumma entravée par l'Occident, mais, sans inscription dans le système régional, sans base sociale reconnue, il privilégie l'action clandestine terroriste au moyen de solidarités nouées par-delà les frontières. Le simple « combattant », enfin, récuse les définitions régionales et transnationales de l'Oumme au profit d'une conception locale ou nationale de la communauté il recherche volontiers le soutien de la communauté internationale, au risque de passer pour un traître auprès des deux figures précédentes. Si la lutte s'est étendue à la Palestine et à l'Irak, c'est d'abord sur le sol libanais que ces trois modèles d'engagement se sont affrontés avec le plus d'intensité depuis plus d'une dizaine d'années. Ce livre décrit en détail l'une des arènes les plus violentes de ce conflit : le milieu des militants sunnites au nord du Liban. Au-delà du seul cas libanais, il restitue les enjeux de l'avenir politique et culturel du Moyen-Orient.

Ummah (Islam) --- Sunnites --- Islam and state --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Islam

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Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing. This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic and communal violence, polygamous abuse, sterility, and heteronormativity. By closely reading and examining examples of ummah-building strategies in interfaith dialogues, exchanges, and encounters between Muslim and non-Muslim women in a selection of African and Southeast Asian fictions and essays, this book highlights women's assertive activisms to redefine transnationalism, understood as relationships across national boundaries, as transgeography. Ummah-building strategies shift the space of, or respatialize, transnational relationships, focusing on connections between communities, groups, and affiliations within the same nation. Such a respatialization also enables a more equitable and inclusive remediation of the citizenship of gendered and religious citizens to the nation-state and the transnational sphere of relationships.

Feminism --- Ummah (Islam) --- Ummah (Islam) --- Muslim women authors --- Muslim women authors --- Feminism in literature. --- Religious aspects --- Islam.

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