@article {Fuchs_2019,
	title = {Faded networks: the overestimated Saudi Legacy of anti-Shi{\textquoteleft}i sectarianism in Pakistan},
	journal = {Global Discourse},
	volume = {9},
	number = {4},
	year = {2019},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {703{\textendash}715},
	publisher = {Bristol University Press},
	abstract = {This article questions the often-assumed centrality of Saudi Arabia for the development of anti-Shi{\textquoteleft}i sectarianism in Pakistan. I argue that those groups and individuals who have been most vocal about the Shi{\textquoteleft}i {\textquoteleft}threat{\textquoteright} since the 1980s lacked (and continue to lack) any strong lineages with the Kingdom. Instead, their local polemics in Urdu foregrounded Pakistan as a political idea and global promise for Islam. This status of Pakistan{\textquoteright}s self-view was acutely threatened by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent establishment of a religious state under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini. Consequently, Pakistani sectarian scholars transcended earlier Salafi-inspired arguments and tried to render Sunni Islam {\textquoteleft}fit{\textquoteright} to compete with powerful Shi{\textquoteleft}i symbols. In doing so, they displayed a remarkable willingness to appropriate and rework Shi{\textquoteleft}i concepts, something that is far from the mind of Saudi clerics.},
	doi = {10.1332/204378919x15718899714223},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1332\%2F204378919x15718899714223},
	author = {Simon Wolfgang Fuchs}
}
