Re-Mapping Transnational Connections in the Middle East

The new Cold War history has begun to reshape the ways that international historians approach the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) during the post-1945 era. Rather than treating the region as exceptional, a number of scholars have sought to focus on the historical continuities and transnational connections between the Middle East and other areas of the Third World. This approach is based on the notion that the MENA region was enmeshed in the transnational webs of communication and exchange that characterized the post-1945 global system. Indeed, the region sat not only at the crossroads between Africa and the Eurasian landmass but also at the convergence of key global historical movements of the second half of the 20th century. Without denying cultural, social, and political elements that are indeed unique to the region, this scholarship has drawn attention to the continuities, connections, and parallels between the Middle Eastern experience and the wider world.

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Alternative Centers of Shiʿi Islam

In a Pure Muslim Land ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649795.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

South Asia ◽

Religious Education ◽

Religious Authority ◽

Creative Potential ◽

Colonial India ◽

Transnational Connections

The introduction discusses the fundamental transformations of Shi‘i thought and conceptions of religious authority that occurred in tandem with the expansion of Shi‘i religious education in colonial India and Pakistan throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. In particular, this section introduces the reader to the three key analytical lenses of the book, namely the evolving nature of sectarianism, the salience of transnational connections, and the creative potential of local religious authority when engaging with the Shi‘i scholarly tradition. The introduction adopts a model of “impetus” and “response” to elucidate the travel of ideas between the Middle East and South Asia, while also paying attention to their translation from Arabic and Persian into Urdu.

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Islamic Puritanism Movements in Indonesia as Transnational Movements

DINIKA Academic Journal of Islamic Studies ◽

10.22515/dinika.v2i1.103 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Benny Baskara

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle East ◽

Transnational Movements ◽

West Sumatra ◽

Transnational Connections ◽

In The Beginning ◽

Islamic Organizations

Islamic puritanism movements are the movements compelling to return to the teachings of Quran and Sunnah, as the pure teachings of Islam and abandon even abolish other teachings outside the teachings of Quran and Sunnah. The movements of Islamic puritanism can be considered as transnational movements because they spread their teachings and ideologies, create organizations, networks, and provide financial supports across nations. This paper describes Islamic puritanism movements in Indonesia and their transnational connections. Some Islamic puritanism movements in Indonesia can be considered as part of Islamic transnational movements, in which most of the movements are centered in the Middle East. In Indonesia, Islamic puritanism movements firstly appeared in the beginning of the nineteenth century, called Padri movement in West Sumatra. It was then continued to the emergence of Islamic organizations in the twentieth century. Recently, Islamic puritanism movements in Indonesia mostly take form as Salafism-Wahabism movements. Keywords:Islamic puritanism movement, transnational movement, and ideology

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Arab Internationalism and Gender: Perspectives from the Third Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1949

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743816000544 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 578-583

Author(s):

Nova Robinson

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

United Nations ◽

National Identities ◽

The Third ◽

Nation States ◽

The Status ◽

Transnational Connections ◽

The United Nations ◽

And Gender ◽

Status Of Women

Historians of the Middle East have used gender to explore a range of topics, from how crises around gendered practices have contributed to the construction of national identities to women's roles in nationalist movements. Whereas early gender histories focused on single nation-states, recent scholarship has turned to regional and transnational connections. Yet the international sphere, the domain of nation-states and nongovernmental organizations in relation to each other, has yet to be examined through the lens of gender. In this essay, I argue that doing so yields new insights into the relationship between the national and the international in the Middle East, and into the process of rights claiming in postcolonial nation-states. I make this argument through a discussion of the third session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW).

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