النظام الإمامي الكهنوتي

English translation: Clerical/ecclesiastical

13:37 Jul 15, 2020

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Arabic term or phrase: النظام الإمامي الكهنوتي

Hello everyone,

Context: book chapter on Yemeni political history

ومع ذلك لا تزال لثورة فبراير أهداف ومبادئ تمثل خيار اليمنيين الذين يرون سوء الواقع الذي أفرزه الارتداد عن هذه الثورة، والمتمثل بعودة شبح النظام الإمامي الكهنوتي شمالا والنظام العصبوي الجهوي"
"السلاطيني جنوبا

I'm stuck on the term كهنوتي. All my usual sources are telling me it means 'priestly'. Seeing as we are talking about an Islamic imamate here, I'm assuming that I can't use that translation as we don't usually speak in English of Islamic priests. Is this adjective simply reinforcing the religious nature of an imamate? Would it be acceptable here to simply say 'imamate/imamah' and omit كهنوتي?

Thanks in advance!

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English translation:Clerical/ecclesiastical

Explanation:

The use of the term الكهنوتي here is meant to mock the Imamis' traditional organized system of clergy. It is meant as a derogatory term, likening the Imami system to the Catholic system of organized priestly structure, although, of course, it is not that.

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Fuad Yahya

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I see - an ironic/derogatory usage makes sense here. Thank you!
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Clerical/ecclesiastical

Fuad Yahya

Priesthood "Priest-King" Imamah Regime / Sovereign Imamah Regime / Kahanout Imamah Regime

Abdullah Ahmad

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peer agreement (net): +2

الكهنوتي

Clerical/ecclesiastical

Fuad Yahya
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 240

Grading comment

I see - an ironic/derogatory usage makes sense here. Thank you!

44 mins confidence:

Priesthood "Priest-King" Imamah Regime / Sovereign Imamah Regime / Kahanout Imamah Regime

Explanation:
the Houthi priesthood الكهنوت الحوثي في اليمن
https://alqabas.com/en/article/5744899-the-yemeni-quotdefens...

Houthi-Iranian priesthood الكهنوت الإيراني الحوثي
https://debriefer.net/en/news-17408.html

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Note added at 45 mins (2020-07-15 14:22:29 GMT)
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Kindly ignore Sovereign Imamah Regime!
I forget to delete that option!

Example sentence(s):

https://www.newsyemen.net/news?page=48

https://www.arabamericantoday.net/pdfs/073.pdf
Reference: http://https://www.arabamericantoday.net/pdfs/073.pdf

Abdullah Ahmad
Egypt
Local time: 05:39
Native speaker of:

Arabic

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for the references - has helped me to understand the word in context :)

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