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020			_a978-1-84904-468-4
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035			_a(OCoLC)1365222349
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100	1		_aGoldsmith, Leon T. _9119870
245	1	0	_aCycle of fear _b: Syria's alawites in war and peace _cLeon T. Goldsmith
250			_a1st. ed.
260			_aLondon : _bHurst & Company, _c2015
300			_aXIV, 306 p. _bil., mapas _c25 cm
500			_aÍndice analítico
504			_aBibliografía: P.267-279
520			_aIn early 2011 an elderly Alawite shaykh lamented the long history of "oppression and aggression" against his people. Against such collective memories the Syrian uprising was viewed by many Alawites, and observers, as a revanchist Sunni Muslim movement and the gravest threat yet to the unorthodox Shi'a sub-sect. This explained why the Alawites largely remained loyal to the Ba'athist regime of Bashar al-Asad. But was Alawite history really a constant tale of oppression and was the Syrian uprising of 2011 really an existential threat to the Alawites? This book surveys Alawite history from the sect's inception in Abbasid Iraq up to the start of the uprising in 2011. The book shows how Alawite identity and political behaviour have been shaped by a cycle of insecurity that has prevented the group from achieving either genuine social integration or long term security. Rather than being the gravest threat yet to the sect, the Syrian uprising, in the context of the Arab Spring, was quite possibly a historic opportunity for the Alawites to finally break free from their cycle of fear.
600			_aAssad, Bashar al _9130615
650	2	7	_aGuerra civil _958847
650	2	7	_aHistoria _958878
651		4	_aSiria _9115904
942			_cBK _2udc
999			_c200212 _d200212
648		0	_aS. XX _9128869
648		0	_aS. XXI _9128966
648		0	_aS. XIX _9128884