A reading on the discursive encounter between Shiites and Sunnis in the Levant region from the 6th century to the end of the Mamluk period

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10.22081/hiq.2024.67233.2351

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In the Levant, despite the dominant demographic pole and the uniform and harmonious atmosphere of the Sunnis, another, the Imamiyya Shia, experienced such remarkable growth that from the fifth century onwards, the two classes of Sunni scholars and rulers were led to adopt a coordinated policy to isolate and eliminate the rival. Examining this confrontation in the form of a method such as Laclau and Mouve's discourse analysis, which has a high analytical capability, can help in uncovering the hidden motives and scholarly activities of the two aforementioned classes. The findings indicate that the two aforementioned rivals, in order to hegemonize thought and highlight their semantic system and marginalize the rival, devoted all their efforts to this confrontation according to their principles, beliefs, capacities, requirements of the time, and regional conditions. However, the privileges held by the Sunnis gave them a position in which they could achieve success in creating a boundary between themselves and the Shiites and marginalizing the signifiers of their discourse. In this regard, they did not refrain from measures such as criminalizing Shiite beliefs, murder, suppression, exile, imprisonment, issuing mandatory government instructions, and the like

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History of Islam

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