Khuzestan and Threats to the Construction of Different Ethnic and Religious Identities

The need to discover the relationship between Wahhabism and separatism among some Arab people of Khuzestan after the imposed war, considering the importance of the issue and the different ethnic and religious conditions governing Khuzestan, gave enough motivation to the researchers to use Weber's understanding analysis method to empathetically understand the developments of the phenomenon and The described conditions with an interpretive approach and qualitative strategy and the use of contextual theory based on the Strauss-Corbin paradigm model including causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, strategies and consequences, fill the existing theoretical gap by purposefully collecting data through in-depth interviews with 34 people from People who have changed their religion and become Wahhabis and have Tablighi and Salafist thoughts and 6 knowledgeable and opinionated experts.The different state of changing the ethnic and religious identity of the Khuzestan Arab people indicated that the change of religion of some Khuzestan Arabs is in the "Wahhabi-Shia" dual and not "Sunni-Shia" and is completely different from the common patterns of takfiri among the Sunnis, which is in four layer and takes place in a period of 6 months to 3 years, which the researchers interpreted as "self-representing multilayered identity" by drawing a pyramid on four levels. The identity built in these layers becomes more complicated and deeper by moving from the base to the top of the pyramid and includes four stages: "Hesitant towards Shi'ism", "Wahhabi", "Tablighi-Takfiri" and "Salafi-Jihadist".