Reaching for power the shiʻa in the modern Arab world by Nakash, Yitzhak

Table of Contents: “…A Shiʻi-led reformation -- The burden of the past -- Containment politics in the Persian Gulf -- The struggle for power in Iraq -- The revival of Shiʻism in Lebanon -- Between aspirations and reality…”

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? …”

Middle East politics and international relations crisis zone by Akbarzadeh, Shahram

Table of Contents: “…Historical Context -- The formation of the state of Israel -- The Arab-Israeli wars -- Palestinian politics : The failure of the 'peace-process' -- Pan-Arabism and Islamism -- The Iranian Revolution and pan-Shi'ism -- Playground of the Superpower -- The US-led War on Terror -- The Arab Uprisings -- The Syrian War -- The Islamic State -- Iran-US Relations and the Nuclear Deal -- Shifting geopolitics in the Middle East…”

The parchment of Kashmir history, society, and polity by Khan, Nyla Ali 1972-

Table of Contents: “…CONSTRUCTIONS OF KASHMIRI IDENTITY WITHIN THE OVERLAPPING DISCOURSES OF KASHMIRIYAT, ISLAM, SAIVISM, SUFISM. Evolution of my Identity vis-a-vis Islam and Kashmir / Mohammad Ishaq Khan --Kashmiriyat: The Voice of the Past Misconstrued / Rattan Lal Hangloo -- PART II. …”

A new Muslim order the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis by Pelham, Nicolas

Table of Contents: “…From Trilby to turbans -- Stirring in the Shia slums -- Cracks in the Sunni bulwark -- The scramble for Shia succession -- Foreigners come gobbling -- The American Shah of Iraq -- The reconstruction myth -- The quiet Ayatollah's regime-change -- America's exiles carve up the spoils -- From Baathism to jihad -- The Sunni Arab emirates -- The local hero and the fighting arm of Hizbollah -- Regime-change and the Baathist interregnum -- The staying power of the Shia -- The country once called Iraq -- The reawakening of Arab Shiism -- The two stripes of the Arab world : Shia Protestantism and the Sunni counter-reformation.…”

Comte de Gobineau and orientalism selected eastern writings / by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de, 1816-1882

Table of Contents: “…Faith of the Arabs, origin and development of Shi'ism -- 3. Beginnings of Babism -- 4. Development of Babism -- 5. …”
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Contemporary Persian Gulf essays in honour of Gulshan Dietl, Prakash Chandra Jain and Girijesh Pant

Islamic civilization in thirty lives the first 1,000 years by Robinson, Chase F.

Table of Contents: “…`Ali cousin, caliph and forefather of Shi'ism (661) -- 3.`A'isha wife of the Prophet (678) -- 4.…”

IRAN : A Modern History / by Amanat, Abbas

Table of Contents: “…Part one. A Shi'i empire. Shi'ism and the Safavid Revolution (1501-1588) -- The age of 'Abbas I and the shaping of the Safavid Empire (1588-1666) -- The demise of the Safavid Order and the Unhappy Interregnums (1666-1797)…”

Routledge handbook of religion and politics

Table of Contents: “…Barr -- Hinduism / James Chiriyankandath -- Islam and Islamism / Andrea Teti and Andrea Mura -- Shiism and politics / Mohammad Nafissi -- Judaism and the state / Shmuel Sandler -- pt. …”
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The image of the Prophet between ideal and ideology a scholarly investigation

Table of Contents: “…Counterhistory in the earliest Latin lives of Muhammad / Kenneth Baxter Wolf -- The Prophet Muhammad in Pre-Modern Jewish Literatures / Reuven Firestone -- Collecting the Dead Body of the Prophet Muhammad : Hair, Nails, Sweat and Spit / Brannon Wheeler -- Muhammad As Warrior Prophet : Images from the World History of Rashid al-Din / Robert Hillenbrand -- Muhammad and an Adoration of the Magi in the Gulbenkian Anthology of 813/1411 / Maria Vittoria Fontana -- Infused with Shi'ism : Representations of the Prophet in Qajar Iran / Maryam Ekhtiar -- Meanings of Muhammad in Later Medieval Art / Debra Higgs Strickland -- "Retour aux Beatus: Mahomet Pseudo-Proph{grave}ete et les Musulmans Idol{circ}atres dans la sculture romane (IX-XIIIe si{grave}ecle)" / In{acute}es Monteira Arias -- Reading the Bible through Glass: The Image of Muhammad in the Sainte-Chapelle / Michelina Di Cesare -- A Sixteenth-Century European Author Portrait of Muhammad and Medieval Latin Traditions of Qur'an Reading / Thomas E. …”