Introduction / Frederic Wehrey. 1. Beyond sectarianism in the Middle East? Comparative perspectives on group conflict / Paul Dixon. Part I: The geopolitics of sectarianism 2. The sectarianism of the Islamic State: ideological roots and political context / Hassan Hassan. 3. The sectarianization of the Syrian war / Heiko Wimmen. 4. Sectarianism and Iranian foreign policy / Afshon Ostovar. Part II: institutional sources of sectarianism 5. Shia-centric state-building in post-2003 Iraq / Fanar Haddad. 6. The unraveling of Taif: the limits of sect-based power-sharing in Lebanon / Joseph Bahout. 7. Twitter wars: Sunni-Shia conflict and cooperation in the digital age / Alexandra Siegel. 8. The political economy of sectarianism: how gulf regimes exploit identity politics as a survival strategy / Justin Gengler. 9. The roots of sectarian law and order in the gulf: Bahrain, the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, and the two historical Disruptions / Staci Strobl. Part III: doctrinal and clerical sources of sectarianism 10. The kingdom and the Caliphate: Saudi Arabia and the Islamic State / Cole Bunzel. 11. Sectarianism and political pragmatism: the paradox of Egypt’s al-Nour Salafis / Stéphane Lacroix. 12. Religious authority and sectarianism in Lebanon / Alexander D.M. Henley.

This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines how political economy, geopolitics, domestic governance, social media, non- and sub-state groups, and clerical elites have affected the transformation and diffusion of sectarian identities. Particular attention is paid to how conflicts over distribution of political and economic power have taken on a sectarian quality, and how a variety of actors have instrumentalised sectarianism. The volume, covering Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, Iran, and Egypt, includes contributors from a broad array of disciplines including political science, history, sociology, and Islamic studies. Beyond Sunni and Shia draws on extensive fieldwork and primary sources to offer insights that are empirically rich and theoretically grounded, but also accessible for policy audiences and the informed public."-- Hurst website.

https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/beyond-sunni-shia/