Typology and Causes of Contemporary Anti-Shiism

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic History, Ahl al-Bayt International University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Anti-Shiism has taken on a new form in the present age and has caused more widespread events than in the past.
Therefore, it is necessary to study its types, causes and nature, especially with the aim of examining whether the contemporary anti-Shiism is a process or not, and to answer the questions: What are the new types of anti-Shiism and its causes? Is the new anti-Shiism a natural process in the continuation of historical anti-Shiism or is it a plan beyond that? The findings of this study, with the method of Enni Argument (using causal data to discover and describe the cause) and the implicit use of discourse analysis, indicate that anti-Shiism is generally divided into two types, long-standing (historical) and modern (contemporary). The new anti-Shiism should be considered in two types: external (outside the Islamic world) and internal (inside the Islamic world). Contemporary external anti-Shiism is more of a program than a process, but contemporary internal anti-Shiism is a long-term process that is rooted in long-standing (historical) anti-Shiism, and is now managed by external (planned) anti-Shiism.

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