The Sunna and Shi'a in history : division and ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. |
| Description: | vi, 278 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8546114 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Sunna and Shi'a in the Age of Muslim Empires
- Early Hanbalism and the Shi'a
- The confrontation between Sunni and Shi'i empires: Ottoman-Safavid relations between the fourteenth and the seventeenth century
- Encounters between Shi' i and Sunni "ulama" in Ottoman Iraq
- The Ottoman Dilemma in handling the Shi'i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq
- Part II. Sunnis and Shi'is and the Modem States
- Religious extremism and ecumenical tendencies in modern Iraqi Shi'ism
- Quietists turned activists: the Shi'i revolution in Iraq
- The Sunni-Shi'i struggle over Lebanon: a new chapter in the history of Lebanon
- The Wahhabiya and Shi'ism, from 1744/45 to 2008
- Unity or hegemony? Iranian attitudes to the Sunni-Shi'i divide
- Debating the "awakening shi'a": Sunni perceptions of the Iranian Revolution
- Interesting times: Egypt and Shi'ism at the beginning of the twenty-first century
- Epilogue: The Sunni-Shi'i paradox