The Sunna and Shi'a in History
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The Sunna and Shi'a in History

Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East

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The Sunna and Shi'a in History

Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Responses to Unwanted Authority in Early Islam: Models for Current Shi'i and Sunni Activists
  6. 2 Early Hanbalism and the Shi'a
  7. 3 The Confrontation between Sunni and Shi'i Empires: Ottoman-Safavid Relations between the Fourteenth and the Seventeenth Century
  8. 4 Encounters between Shi'i and Sunni 'Ulama' in Ottoman Iraq
  9. 5 The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shi'i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq
  10. 6 Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shi'ism
  11. 7 Quietists Turned Activists: the Shi'i Revolution in Iraq
  12. 8 The Sunni-Shi'i Struggle over Lebanon: A New Chapter in the History of Lebanon
  13. 9 The Wahhabiyya and Shi'ism, from 1744/45 to 2008
  14. 10 Unity or Hegemony? Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shi'i Divide
  15. 11 Debating the "Awakening Shi'a": Sunni Perceptions of the Iranian Revolution
  16. 12 Interesting Times: Egypt and Shi'ism at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
  17. Epilogue: The Sunni-Shi'i Paradox
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index