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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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Group Author: Bengio, Ofra.; Litvak, Meir.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Shai?ah > Relations > Sunnites.
Sunnites > Relations > Shai?ah.
Shai?ah > History > Iraq.
Sunnites > History > Iraq.
Middle Eastern history > Middle East.
Islam > Middle East.
Islamic studies > Middle East.
History.
Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137495068
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230120921, 2011.
Carrier Form: 286 p.
ISBN: 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.

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