The Sunna and Shi'a in history: division and ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East
edited by Ofra Bengio and Meir Litvak
The Sunna and Shi'a in history: division and ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East
المؤلف
edited by Ofra Bengio and Meir Litvakالناشر
Palgrave Macmillanطبع 1
قائمة
شناسنامه
العنوان واسم المؤلف
The Sunna and Shi'a in history: division and ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East / edited by Ofra Bengio and Meir Litvakبيانات النشر
نیویورک : Palgrave Macmillan، 2011مالمواصفات الشكلية
vi, 278 p.; 22 cm.الموضوع
Shiah Relations SunnitesSunnites Relations Shiah
Shi'ah - Iraq History
Sunnites - Iraq History
اللغة
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references )p. ]352[-762( and index.
المحتويات
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