TY - JOUR
T1 - Stereotypes and political styles
T2 - Islamists and tribesfolk in Yemen
AU - Dresch, Paul
AU - Haykel, Bernard
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors' note: Information in this article derives largely from residence in Yemen. Dresch thanks the British Academy for their generous support and the Centre Francais d'Etudes Ye'me'nites for their help in Sanca:l. Haykel thanks the Fulbright Commission and the American Institute for Yemeni Studies. Both thank the Yemeni Center for Studies and Research. The views expressed are not those of institutions. 'The present paper was originally completed at the start of 1994, before the fighting. We have not changed the line of argument, although the account has been brought up to date. Thanks are owed to IJMES reviewers and to Michael Meeker for helpful suggestions.
PY - 1995/11
Y1 - 1995/11
N2 - An outbreak of fighting in May 1994 put Yemen in the world's headlines when, from one point of view, the unity of Yemen proclaimed in May four years earlier was confirmed by force. One topic which straddles that period has been Islah, an Islamist party of unusual form. The present article explores the rhetorical axes that defined Islah. Briefly put, a supposedly “fundamentalist,” even “radical,” party, was in fact more a party of the establishment center. Its public identity, however, depends on terms and arguments that are centered elsewhere than Yemen, and they misrepresent, to many Yemenis as to others, what is happening. The problem is not resolved by such standard academic moves as avoiding “stereotypes” or sticking to “local terms.” The terms at issue are widely shared among Yemenis and foreigners alike.
AB - An outbreak of fighting in May 1994 put Yemen in the world's headlines when, from one point of view, the unity of Yemen proclaimed in May four years earlier was confirmed by force. One topic which straddles that period has been Islah, an Islamist party of unusual form. The present article explores the rhetorical axes that defined Islah. Briefly put, a supposedly “fundamentalist,” even “radical,” party, was in fact more a party of the establishment center. Its public identity, however, depends on terms and arguments that are centered elsewhere than Yemen, and they misrepresent, to many Yemenis as to others, what is happening. The problem is not resolved by such standard academic moves as avoiding “stereotypes” or sticking to “local terms.” The terms at issue are widely shared among Yemenis and foreigners alike.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0020743800062486
DO - 10.1017/S0020743800062486
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84972167959
SN - 0020-7438
VL - 27
SP - 405
EP - 431
JO - International Journal of Middle East Studies
JF - International Journal of Middle East Studies
IS - 4
ER -