{"id":4503,"date":"2024-03-26T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2024-03-26T21:31:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:31:33","slug":"sectarianization-and-memory-in-the-post-saddam-middle-east-the-alaqima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=4503","title":{"rendered":"Sectarianization and Memory in the post-Saddam Middle East: the \u2018Al\u0101qima"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author<\/b>: <\/span>Nassima Neggaz<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation<\/b>: <\/span>Division of Humanities, New College Florida, FL, USA<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher<\/b>: <\/span>The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Date\/Place: <\/b>July 26, 2020\/ UK<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Journal Article<\/span><\/p>

Number of Pages:<\/b> 19<\/span><\/p>

Link<\/b>:https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13530194.2020.1772041?scroll=top&needAccess=true\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>

Keywords: <\/b>US Invasion, Iraq, Alaqima, Sectarianism, Saddam<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief:<\/b><\/p>

The author critically evaluates an online narrative that reflects the split in Iraqi society post-2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The international actors exploited the sectarian fault lines of Iraq by comparing the US invasion of Iraq with Hulagu Khan\u2019s conquest of Baghdad in 1258. The victim of this discourse is the Iraqi Shiite population, being referred to as \u2018Alqami of contemporary times. Muayad Ad-Din ibn Al-\u2018Alqami was the Shia minister of the Abbasid Caliphate who <\/span>facilitated<\/span><\/a> the Mongols\u2019 invasion of Baghdad. Just as \u2018Alqami colluded with a foreign power to remove the head of state, the Shiite population in the Middle East (particularly in Iraq) is likewise blamed and accused by political figures, religious clerics, and jihadist groups of facilitating the US\u2019 invasion of Iraq in 2003. The study incorporates the \u201cnarrative constitution of identity\u201d approach proposed by Margaret Somers in 1994. According to this theory, people adopt fabricated stories, narrated by ethno-sectarian entrepreneurs, to construct identities based on ethnicity or sect. The study identifies four components of narrativity: relationality of parts, casual emplotment, selective appropriation, and temporality.\u00a0 Furthermore, the Gulf States\u2014specifically UAE and Saudi Arabia\u2014 are promoting this narrative of Shiite betrayal and Sunni victimhood in the region. As a result of this propaganda, both state and non-state actors are mobilizing militias while fueling the anarchy in an already chaotic region. The article emphasizes the need of intra-Muslim discursive strategies to contain and restrict the \u201csect consciousnesses\u201d in a polarized region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

By:<\/b> Muhammad Taimoor Bin Tanveer, CIGA Senior Research Associate<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Nassima Neggaz Affiliation: Division of Humanities, New College Florida, FL, USA Organization\/Publisher: The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\u00a0 Date\/Place: July 26, 2020\/ UK Type of Literature: Journal Article Number of Pages: 19 Link:https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13530194.2020.1772041?scroll=top&needAccess=true\u00a0 Keywords: US Invasion, Iraq, Alaqima, Sectarianism, Saddam Brief: The author critically evaluates an online narrative that reflects the split in 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