Chibli Mallat
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199394203
- eISBN:
- 9780199394234
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199394203.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Private International Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter examines, in a millennium-deep cultural perspective, the way in which persisting patterns of political language in the Middle East and beyond have been shattered by nonviolence. In a ...
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This chapter examines, in a millennium-deep cultural perspective, the way in which persisting patterns of political language in the Middle East and beyond have been shattered by nonviolence. In a first part, it describes the dominance of the concept of terrorism and the way it was undermined by the Middle East nonviolent revolution. It examines then the ambiguity of the Middle East central political concepts of fitna, bid‘a, and jihad, including the historical divide between Sunnism and Shi‘ism. It rediscovers legal, poetical, historical, and philosophical nonviolent testimonies of Middle Eastern culture prefiguring ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi and the nonviolent advocates of the contemporary Middle East.Less
This chapter examines, in a millennium-deep cultural perspective, the way in which persisting patterns of political language in the Middle East and beyond have been shattered by nonviolence. In a first part, it describes the dominance of the concept of terrorism and the way it was undermined by the Middle East nonviolent revolution. It examines then the ambiguity of the Middle East central political concepts of fitna, bid‘a, and jihad, including the historical divide between Sunnism and Shi‘ism. It rediscovers legal, poetical, historical, and philosophical nonviolent testimonies of Middle Eastern culture prefiguring ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi and the nonviolent advocates of the contemporary Middle East.
