From Fitna to Thawra

Ayalon, Ami

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“…Source : https://creativememory.org/fr/archives/210766/les-idees-ne-meurent-pas-2/ à la « Grande Révolte syrienne » (al-thawra al-suriyya al-kubra) conduite par le Sultan Atrash en 1925 contre le Mandat français, événement que les révolutionnaires de 2011 revendiquent comme modèle dans des slogans (Rey et Le terme thawra est construit à partir de la racine th-w-r qui signifie se soulever, se rebeller (Achcar 2013, 14 ;Saïd 1997, 343-344). Ce substantif aurait acquis son sens actuel dans la presse des années 1850 (Ayalon 1987).…”

Section: Révolution Syrienne Et Syrianisation De La Révolutionunclassified

La révolution / الثورة : penser la révolution syrienne par-delà sa défaite (1)

Al‐Khalili

2023

Lexique Vivant De La Révolution Et De La Guerre en Syrie

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Section: Révolution Syrienne Et Syrianisation De La Révolutionunclassified

La révolution / الثورة : penser la révolution syrienne par-delà sa défaite (1)

Al‐Khalili

2023

Lexique Vivant De La Révolution Et De La Guerre en Syrie

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“…Answering the above questions requires highlighting “effective corrupt leadership” that actively engages in corrupt practice but intentionally makes a significant positive impact on the welfare of people (Neal & Tansey, 2010, p. 34). There has been a change in leadership style since the beginning of the Lebanese protest movement known as Thawra (revolution) on October 17, 2019 (Ayalon, 1987, pp. 145–174).…”

Section: The Lack Of Circulation Of Elites Within the Consociational ...mentioning

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The Lack of Circulation of Elites in Lebanon: Towards Communitocracy and Autocratization

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Kairouz

2023

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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The article examines how the lack of circulation of political elites has contributed to setting up an economic–political system designed to avoid the construction of a political entity and common Lebanese identity for fear of losing their traditional role and privileges on the political scene. Toward this, the article provides a general assessment of the Lebanese consociational democracy to understand the elements and factors hampering this form of political governance. Then it delves into the main socio-political factors that allow the triumph of communitocracy. It shows how the lack of circulation on elites, on the one hand, the consociational system on the other, affect democratization and nation-building processes. It throws light on the misbehavior of the Lebanese elites concerning the challenge that democracy and national building represent.

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“…Before World War I, according to Ami Ayalon, the term was used positively to mean "revolution" by only "a handful of mainly Christian intellectuals"; it still mainly had negative connotations-of lawless revolt, bloodshed, and anarchy-including in the writings of Rida, who in 1908 had called it a "distasteful and repugnant thing." 142 Al-Shahrastani's essay, written in a language that is poetic and scientific at once, proposes ten secrets, or principles, of al-thawra. I will mention just three of them here.…”

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Political Sociality in the Narrowing of Time: Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani and the Late Ottoman Najafi Revival

Pursley

2023

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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This article explores the pre–World War I writings of the Najafi cleric Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani (1884–1967), situating them within the broader Islamic revival movement, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, the Arabic Nahda, and the Ottoman Shiʿi shrine cities in the years preceding the British invasion of Basra in 1914. It makes four arguments. First, al-Shahrastani's calls for constitutionalism, Islamic unity, revival, and the cultivation of the self were all attempts to respond to what he saw as the immediate and existential threat to his world posed by European imperial expansion. Second, he attempted in a variety of ways to mobilize what he called the Islamic social practices against this threat. Borrowing from his own theorization of these practices, I employ the concept of political sociality to gather his attempts to foster various social assemblages—of both newer and older provenance—that would cultivate Muslim subjects with the capacity to resist European aggression. Third, his conceptions of sociality and of political temporality, although often resonant with those of the more widely studied Sunni and Christian reformers of the Nahda, had specificities that I relate to his understandings of subject formation, the sense of impending calamity in his writings, and the borderlands context of the shrine cities. These conceptions were not necessarily affiliated with the nationalist and disciplinary project of the modern territorial state and were animated by a temporality of urgency rather than deferral. Finally, I consider how al-Shahrastani's theorizations of sociality and ultimately of revolution (al-thawra) reveal moments in the historical constitution of a reformist and soon-to-be insurgent Shiʿi public in these cities.

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From Fitna to Thawra

Cited by 23 publications

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La révolution / الثورة : penser la révolution syrienne par-delà sa défaite (1)

La révolution / الثورة : penser la révolution syrienne par-delà sa défaite (1)

The Lack of Circulation of Elites in Lebanon: Towards Communitocracy and Autocratization

Political Sociality in the Narrowing of Time: Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani and the Late Ottoman Najafi Revival

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