{"id":17173,"date":"2015-01-23T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=17173"},"modified":"2015-01-23T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:01:24","slug":"background-information-for-understanding-the-current-crisis-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/background-information-for-understanding-the-current-crisis-in-yemen.html","title":{"rendered":"Background information for understanding the current crisis in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17174\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/Hormuz_t700.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17174\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/Hormuz_t700.jpg\" alt=\"Jazirat al-\u2018Arab\" width=\"402\" height=\"396\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Arabian Peninsula, where a lot has happened over the past couple of weeks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not, and don\u2019t pretend to be, an expert on the politics of Yemen. \u00a0But, for any who would like some background information on the Zaydi Shi\u2018ite movement out of which the Houthi insurgents emerge who have just taken control of that country \u2014 the Zaydis are quite distinct from the Ithna\u2018asharis who rule\u00a0Iran \u2014 there may be\u00a0worse places to look than my online article on the \u201cZaydiyya\u201d for\u00a0<em>Oxford Bibliographies<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordbibliographies.com\/view\/document\/obo-9780195390155\/obo-9780195390155-0153.xml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.oxfordbibliographies.com\/view\/document\/obo-9780195390155\/obo-9780195390155-0153.xml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019m not, and don\u2019t pretend to be, an expert on the politics of Yemen. \u00a0But, for any who would like some background information on the Zaydi Shi\u2018ite movement out of which the Houthi insurgents emerge who have just taken control of that country \u2014 the Zaydis are quite distinct from the Ithna\u2018asharis who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Background information for understanding the current crisis in Yemen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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