This paper is published in Volume-7, Issue-2, 2021
Area
Social Science
Author
Hesham Alziady
Org/Univ
Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey
Pub. Date
26 April, 2021
Paper ID
V7I2-1433
Publisher
Keywords
Al al-Byet, Al-Rassi, Aqyal, Ethnocentrism, Hashemite, Houthis, Nationalism, Yemeni War, Zaydism

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Hesham Alziady. How can the Houthi ethnic supremacy beliefs undermine the social and political stability in Yemen?, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Hesham Alziady (2021). How can the Houthi ethnic supremacy beliefs undermine the social and political stability in Yemen?. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 7(2) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Hesham Alziady. "How can the Houthi ethnic supremacy beliefs undermine the social and political stability in Yemen?." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 7.2 (2021). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

As the breaking out of the war in Yemen occurred because of the coup made by the Saleh-Houthi alliance in 2014, the world began to show more attention to Houthis as a Zaydi religious group. But, in order to understand Houthis in-depth, it is quite important to study its historical, social, and religious roots, try to decode its complexities. This paper aims to analyze historically Houthis in its anthropological roots of Zaydi-Hashimism. The paper also studies the ethnic superiority in the Houthi' beliefs using the theoretical frame of ethnocentrism. As well as it examines if these beliefs contribute to the Yemeni social and political instability since the first Jarudian Zaydi state has been established in Yemen thousand years ago. In addition to that, the paper studies the new phenomenon of Aqyal as an anti-Hashemite movement, and if it is an extension of the national liberation movements that struggled against Imamate in the past. It examines if the Aqyal as a national movement can increase its popularity in the future.