Shi'ite identities
Subtitle: community and culture in changing social contexts
By: Christoph Marcinkowski
Series: Freiburg studies in social anthropology -- Bd. 27; Freiburger sozialanthropologische Studien -- Bd. 27.
Publisher: Lit; Global [distributor]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9783643800497
Subjects: Shiites; Political activity; Ethnicity; Islam; Social conditions; Islam and culture; Shiiter; Politisk verksamhet; Sociala förhållanden; Etnicitet; Religiösa aspekter; Schiiten; Religiöse Identität; Politischer Wandel; Soziokultureller Wandel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-283).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: pt. I; title: Concepts and Worldview -- -- 1.; title: Twelver Shi'ite Islam: Concepts and Practices -- -- 2.; title: Some Reflections on Twelver Shi'ite Attitudes Toward the Integrity of the Qur'anic Text -- -- pt. II; title: Shi'ism in the Muslim Heartlands -- Past and Present -- -- 3.; title: The Buyid Period as the Historical Background for the Flourishing of Classical Shi'ite Muslim Scholarship -- -- 4.; title: Between `Greater Iran' and `Shi'ite Crescent': Reconsidering the Nature of Iran's Ambitions in the Middle East -- -- 5.; title: Rethinking Shi'ite Islam: Contemporary Iraq and its Seminaries -- -- 6.; title: The Lebanese Connection: Some Thoughts on the Post-2006 Setting -- -- pt. III; title: Shi'ism in the Diaspora: The Southeast Asian Experience -- -- 7.; title: Facets of the Historical Presence of Shi'ism in Southeast Asia -- -- 8.; title: Aspects of Shi'ism in Contemporary Southeast Asia --; title: Postscript --; title: Christian-Muslim Relations in the Age of Terror: Prospects for the Catholic-Shi'ite Project?.