Multiple Identities in a Pluralistic World: Shi'ism in America

Takim, Liyakat

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“…As the pluralist political system in each country would suggest, each organization grew out of community action (as opposed to state direction, like the Conseil Français du Culte Musulman in France (Laurence and Vaisse )). The organizations' leaders were for the most part first‐generation immigrants, not religiously trained, largely Sunni (see also Takim ), and predominantly men (see also Leonard ; Moore ) (the major exceptions were Canadians: the first Chair of CAIR‐CAN and the second President of CIC).…”

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Muslim Interest Groups and Foreign Policy in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom: Identity, Interests, and Action

Ross

2012

Foreign Policy Anal

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In the last two decades, Muslim minorities have organized politically as Muslims (as opposed to ethnic or national identities) to influence foreign policy in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. This paper evaluates to what extent and in what ways Muslim identity impacts upon the determination of the foreign policy interests and lobbying of Muslim interest groups in these pluralist democracies, as compared to other variables at the national and organizational levels. Analysis is based largely on primary documents, such as press releases and newsletters, issued by five leading Muslim interest groups in the US, Canada and the UK, as well as interviews with the leaders of these organizations.

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Muslim Interest Groups and Foreign Policy in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom: Identity, Interests, and Action

Ross

2012

Foreign Policy Anal

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“…The Muslims among them settled primarily in the Detroit/Dearborn area. By the 1940s, Takim notes, there were at least 200 Muslim families (both Sunni and Shi‘ite) in Detroit, though the greatest influx took place in the 1950s (Takim, 2002: 218).…”

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The Shi‘ite Law of Migration

Darwish

2013

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

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This study surveys rulings on the subject of migration issued by Imami Shi‘ite legal scholars from the formative 10th – 14th centuries to contemporary times. Prefacing this survey with an examination of hijrah (migration) in the Qur’an and early Imami traditions, the study opens up reflection on an area of Islamic legal discourse that is largely ignored in the literature on Islam in the West. In examining the legal discourse on migration as an historical phenomenon central to the early construction of Muslim identity and not simply as an ad hoc response to modern contingencies, we are able to situate the rulings of traditional modern legal scholars within a long-standing discursive framework. The study demonstrates that while early jurists constructed a rationale for migration to Muslim-held territory that served the interests of the community or state and religion, jurists of the modern period re-employ the same theoretical models while adjusting them to respond to the historical circumstances of cultural and religious globalization.

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“…The fact that the center is run by Al-Saleh and his family and financed through his father's Shii networks in the Gulf region illustrates how the traditional leadership of the Shii clerics is also central in a diasporic setting. 17 The facilities of the center have been shared by Shiis of different nationalities. However, apart from the ritual salat prayers each national group organizes its own events, catering for their particular linguistic and cultural needs.…”

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Shaping the Public Image of Islam: The Shiis of Ireland as “Moderate” Muslims

Scharbrodt¹

2011

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs

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Public discourse on Muslims in Europe has been characterized by a differentiation between "moderate" and "radical" Muslims. This discourse which distinguishes between acceptable and unacceptable forms of Islam also creates tensions and competitions among Muslims with organizations and individuals vying for leadership, recognition, and government sponsorship by presenting themselves as moderate voices within Muslim communities speaking out against extremism and radicalism. In Ireland, the Shii community, its clerical leader and other lay activists emphasize their moderate and integrationist understanding of Islam and appear as outspoken critics of radical and militant expressions of Sunni Islam. Thereby, representatives of the Shii community adopt the differentiation between moderate and radical Muslims in contemporary discourse and conflate it with the historical sectarian divide between Sunnis and Shiis, translated into a European diaporic setting. In addition to providing a profile of the Shii community in Ireland, this paper discusses the Shii selfrepresentation as a moderate group among Muslims in Ireland. The reasons and motivations for this particular self-representation in the public will be examined by considering the socio-economic background of early Shii migrants, current streams of Shii thought and its impact on Shiis in Ireland and the double-minority setting as "a minority within a minority".

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Multiple Identities in a Pluralistic World: Shi'ism in America

Cited by 10 publications

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Muslim Interest Groups and Foreign Policy in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom: Identity, Interests, and Action

Muslim Interest Groups and Foreign Policy in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom: Identity, Interests, and Action

The Shi‘ite Law of Migration

Shaping the Public Image of Islam: The Shiis of Ireland as “Moderate” Muslims

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