For the Greater Good: Common Goals and Institutional Sunni–Shiʿa Cooperation in Norway

Under what circumstances do Sunni and Shiʿa organisations enter into institutional cooperation with each other? This article explores this question through a study of Muslim institutional cooperation in Norway from the late 1980s to the late 2010s, based on both archival sources and qualitative inte...

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Главный автор: Elgvin, Olav 1980- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Brill 2023
В: Journal of Muslims in Europe
Год: 2023, Том: 12, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 15-35
Другие ключевые слова:B umbrella organisations
B process tracing
B Sunni–Shiʿa relations
B Muslim councils
B Islam in Norway
B historical methods
B Islam in Scandinavia
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Итог:Under what circumstances do Sunni and Shiʿa organisations enter into institutional cooperation with each other? This article explores this question through a study of Muslim institutional cooperation in Norway from the late 1980s to the late 2010s, based on both archival sources and qualitative interviews. This period witnessed at first a very tight cooperation between Sunni and Shiʿa organisations, before the cooperation collapsed in the 1990s. In the 2010s Sunnis and Shiʿa again started to cooperate closely. The article seeks to interpret this development through the theory of superordinate or common goals or uniting against a third party. Sunnis seemed to invite the Shiʿa in when they had a clear common goal in the form of an external threat. Even though conditions vary, I argue that this mechanism may have played a role in the development of cooperation between Sunni and Shiʾa organisations in other countries as well.
ISSN:2211-7954
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Journal of Muslims in Europe
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22117954-bja10067