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"One cannot doubt t...
"One cannot doubt the potential effect of these fatwas on modern Muslim society." Online Accusations of Disbelief and Apostasy: The Internet as an Arena for Sunni and Shia Muslim Conflicts
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- Larsson, Göran, 1970 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Linnécentret for forskning om lärande (LinCS),Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion,The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction, and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS),Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
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- 2016-04-12
- 2016
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Studies in religion. - : SAGE Publications. - 0008-4298. ; 45:2, s. 201-221
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- This article focuses on a number of fatwas published on the Sunni website Islamqa that, among many things, present negative understandings of Shia Islam. Before discussing the content of the fatwas, I offer a brief reconsideration of the major lines of conflict that divide Sunni and Shia Muslims both in history and at the present day. I then argue that, although contemporary tensions and hatred between different Muslim individuals and groups can potentially be supported by stereotypical presentations of Shia Muslims on the Internet, in order for an individual or a group to turn to violence, a socio-political context is required that is conducive to violent interpretations of religious views. The fatwas considered here do not contain much that is new, and more or less repeat old theological positions. However, in the context of the current crises in Iraq and Syria, old tensions and conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims have gained momentum, making it obvious that theological differences are being used to dehumanize the Other and to legitimate violence against the religious Other.
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- HUMANIORA -- Filosofi, etik och religion (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion (hsv//eng)
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- Sunni
- Shia
- Internet
- fatwa
- conflicts
- Syria
- Wahhabism
- Salafism
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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