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“Fuad Khuri (1935-2003)was a Lebanese anthropologist. In a way, he wrote the first political sociology of Islam and sectarianism, looking at the importance of sectarian identity in politics, in society and in state formation…It’s about Alawites, different Christian groups, the Druze, and the Zaydis in Yemen. The reason I chose it is because, conceptually, he took the importance of sectarian identity seriously. There were many scholars and historians who brushed it aside, but he grew up in Lebanon and had to flee during the Lebanese civil war and he took those dynamics seriously.” Read more...
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