The Sunna and Shi'a in history division and ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East
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 t...
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New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2011
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Table of Contents:
- 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