The Sunna and Shi'a in history division and ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East

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? …”

Mystical union in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam an ecumenical dialogue

Radical Christianity in Palestine and Israel liberation and theology in the Middle East by Kuruvilla, Samuel J.

Table of Contents: “…The historical background -- Political and liberation theologies : implications for Israel-Palestine (the theo-political context of Ateek and Raheb's work) -- The 'Sabeel' Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre in Jerusalem : a study of the theology and praxis of Naim Ateek -- The politics and praxis of Naim Ateek and Sabeel -- Contextual theology in Palestine : the theological and political-cultural practise of Mitri Raheb -- Palestinian theological praxis in context : an analysis of the approaches of Ateek and Raheb from a comparative perspective.…”

Radical Christianity in Palestine and Israel liberation and theology in the Middle East by Kuruvilla, Samuel J.

Table of Contents: “…The historical background -- Political and liberation theologies : implications for Israel-Palestine (the theo-political context of Ateek and Raheb's work) -- The 'Sabeel' Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre in Jerusalem : a study of the theology and praxis of Naim Ateek -- The politics and praxis of Naim Ateek and Sabeel -- Contextual theology in Palestine : the theological and political-cultural practise of Mitri Raheb -- Palestinian theological praxis in context : an analysis of the approaches of Ateek and Raheb from a comparative perspective.…”

Bangsa and Umma development of people-grouping concepts in Islamized Southeast Asia

Table of Contents: “…Tracing the Boundaries of a Jawi Ecumene: Reflections from a Distance / Michael Laffan -- 3. …”

Islam in a post-secular society religion, secularity and the antagonism of recalcitrant faith by Byrd, Dustin J.

Table of Contents: “…The Globalized Post-Secular Society and the Future of Islam -- From the West to the Rest -- Theocracy as a Response to the Globalized Post-Secular Society -- Post-Secular Solidarity: A Proposal for an Intra-religious Constitutionalism -- Ecumenism and Inter- Religious Constitution Building: Modern Slavery…”