The Sunna and Shi'a in history Division and ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East /
Sunni-Shi'i relations have undergone significant transformations in recent decades. In order to understand these developments, the contributors to the present volume demonstrate the complexity of Sunni-Shi'i relations by analyzing political, ideological, and social encounters between the t...
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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137495068 |
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Sunni-Shi'i relations have undergone significant transformations in recent decades. In order to understand these developments, the contributors to the present volume demonstrate the complexity of Sunni-Shi'i relations by analyzing political, ideological, and social encounters between the two communities from early Islamic history to the present. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230120921, 2011. |
Carrier Form: | 286 p. |
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9780230120921 9780230370739 : 023037073X : |
CLC: | B96 |
Contents: | PART I: SUNNA AND SHI'A IN THE AGE OF MUSLIM EMPIRES Responses to Unwanted Authority in Early Islam: Models for Current Shi'i and Sunni Activists-- J.Lassner Early Hanbalism and the Shi'a-- N.Hurvitz The Confrontation Between Sunni and Shi'i Empires: Ottoman-Safavid Relations Between the Fourteenth and the Seventeenth Century-- M.Scherberger Encounters between Shi'i and Sunni 'ulama' in Ottoman Iraq-- M.Litvak The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shi'i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq-- I.S.Ustun PART II: SUNNIS AND SHI'IS AND THE MODERN STATES Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shi'ism-- A.Baram Quietists Turned Activists: the Shi'i Revolution in Iraq-- O.Bengio The Sunni-Shi'i Struggle over Lebanon: a New Chapter in the History of Lebanon-- E.Zisser The Wahhabiya and Shi'ism, from 1744/45 to 2008-- G.Steinberg Unity or Hegemony? Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shi'i Divide-- Z.Maghen Debating the 'awakening shi'a': Sunni Perceptions of the Iranian Revolution-- M.Hatina Interesting Times: Egypt and Shi'ism at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century-- R.Brunner Epilogue: The Sunni-Shi'i Paradox. |