The Sunna and Shi’a in History [electronic resource] : Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East /
Bengio, Ofra.editor.
Litvak, Meir.editor.
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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Introduction / Ofra Bengio and Meir Litvak -- Responses to unwanted authority in early Islam: models for current Shi'i and Sunni activists / Jacob Lassner -- Early Hanbalism and the Shi'a / Nimrod Hurvitz -- The confrontation between Sunni and Shi'i empires: Ottoman-Safavid relations between the fourteenth and the seventeenth century / Max Scherberger -- Encounters between Shi'i and Sunni 'ulama' in Ottoman Iraq / Meir Litvak -- The Ottoman dilemma in handling the Shi'i challenge in nineteenth-century Iraq / Ismail Safa Ustun -- Religious extremism and ecumenical tendencies in modern Iraqi Shi'ism / Amatzia Baram -- Quietists turned activists: the Shi'i revolution in Iraq / Ofra Bengio -- The Sunni-Shi'i struggle over Lebanon: a new chapter in the history of Lebanon / Eyal Zisser -- The Wahhabiyya and Shi'ism, from 1744/45 to 2008 / Guido Steinberg -- Unity or hegemony? Iranian attitudes to the Sunni-Shi'i divide / Ze'ev Maghen -- Debating the "awakening Shi'a": Sunni perceptions of the Iranian Revolution / Meir Hatina -- Interesting times: Egypt and Shi'ism at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Rainer Brunner -- Epilogue: the Sunni-Shi'i paradox / Ofra Bengio and Meir Litvak.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
International relations.
Political science.
Islam.
Middle Eastern Politics.
International Relations.
History of the Middle East.
Political Science.
Islam.