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Regime or revolution? the dilemma of Syria’s religious institutions: the example of the Fatih Institute

The Sunni ‘ulama of Syria did not respond to the 2011 revolution in a unified fashion. Whereas top scholars gave full support to initial protests, others aligned themselves with the regime. Quietism was the preferred choice of a third group. Taking the Fatih Institute as a case study, this paper pre...

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Main Author: Bakour Mohamad, Bachar
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Published: Taylor and Francis Ltd. 2020
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BP173.7 Islam and politics
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spelling my.iium.irep.807372020-11-11T07:03:49Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/80737/ Regime or revolution? the dilemma of Syria’s religious institutions: the example of the Fatih Institute Bakour Mohamad, Bachar BP173.7 Islam and politics The Sunni ‘ulama of Syria did not respond to the 2011 revolution in a unified fashion. Whereas top scholars gave full support to initial protests, others aligned themselves with the regime. Quietism was the preferred choice of a third group. Taking the Fatih Institute as a case study, this paper presents the differing positions of the Faith scholars with their pronounced rationales. Adopting textual and contextual analysis, the paper examines these views on the basis of Islamic sources on one hand and the realistic situation of the Syrian prolonged crisis on the other hand. The paper concludes that the Syrian regime was able to exploit religious institutions to propagate its narrative of events. Also, co-opted scholars widely vary in their acquiescence and response to the regime’s demand. More impotently, with the absence of the essentially geo-political, and social considerations, the pro-revolution camp failed to consider the present vs. the expected harm, which resulted in massive bloodshed and major upheaval in the Syrian society as a whole. Taylor and Francis Ltd. 2020-04-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/80737/1/ilovepdf_merged.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/80737/7/80737_Regime%20or%20revolution_SCOPUS.pdf Bakour Mohamad, Bachar (2020) Regime or revolution? the dilemma of Syria’s religious institutions: the example of the Fatih Institute. Politics, Religion & Ideology, 21 (2). pp. 232-250. ISSN 2156-7689 E-ISSN 2156-7697 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21567689.2020.1763317 10.1080/21567689.2020.1763317
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Regime or revolution? the dilemma of Syria’s religious institutions: the example of the Fatih Institute
description The Sunni ‘ulama of Syria did not respond to the 2011 revolution in a unified fashion. Whereas top scholars gave full support to initial protests, others aligned themselves with the regime. Quietism was the preferred choice of a third group. Taking the Fatih Institute as a case study, this paper presents the differing positions of the Faith scholars with their pronounced rationales. Adopting textual and contextual analysis, the paper examines these views on the basis of Islamic sources on one hand and the realistic situation of the Syrian prolonged crisis on the other hand. The paper concludes that the Syrian regime was able to exploit religious institutions to propagate its narrative of events. Also, co-opted scholars widely vary in their acquiescence and response to the regime’s demand. More impotently, with the absence of the essentially geo-political, and social considerations, the pro-revolution camp failed to consider the present vs. the expected harm, which resulted in massive bloodshed and major upheaval in the Syrian society as a whole.
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title Regime or revolution? the dilemma of Syria’s religious institutions: the example of the Fatih Institute
title_short Regime or revolution? the dilemma of Syria’s religious institutions: the example of the Fatih Institute
title_full Regime or revolution? the dilemma of Syria’s religious institutions: the example of the Fatih Institute
title_fullStr Regime or revolution? the dilemma of Syria’s religious institutions: the example of the Fatih Institute
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