SJSU Sectarianism & Modernity Discussion
Sectarianism & Modernity—A Conversation with Historian Ussama Makdisi Questions. You answers don’t have to be in complete sentences or in paragraph form. They can be bullet points:
1) Why do we need to understand the political, economic and social context to explain sectarian violence?
2) Why does Ussama Makdisi argue it is important to investigate why, at specific moments, and not at others, there are eruptions of sectarian violence?
How does this respond to the idea that sectarian tensions are age old?
3) Why is it important to remember that the Middle East is a place of tremendous religious diversity and that there was, for centuries, coexistence among religious communities?
4) Why is it that since 2003 and 2006 there has been a massive upsurge and uptick in sectarian violence in the Middle East?
