The Sunna and Shi'a in History: Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East

by Ofra Bengio (Editor), Meir Litvak (Editor)

PART SUNNA AND SHI'A IN THE AGE OF MUSLIM EMPIRES Responses to Unwanted Authority in Early Models for Current Shi'i and Sunni Activists; J.Lassner Early Hanbalism and the Shi'a; N.Hurvitz The Confrontation Between Sunni and Shi`i Ottoman-Safavid Relations Between the Fourteenth and the Seventeenth Century; M.Scherberger Encounters between Shi'i and Sunni 'ulama' in Ottoman Iraq; M.Litvak The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shi'i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq; I.S.Üstün PART SUNNIS AND SHI'IS AND THE MODERN STATES Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shi'ism; A.Baram Quietists Turned the Shi'i Revolution in Iraq; O.Bengio The Sunni-Shi'i Struggle over a New Chapter in the History of Lebanon; E.Zisser The Wahhabiya and Shi'ism, from 1744/45 to 2008; G.Steinberg Unity or Hegemony? Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shi'i Divide; Z.Maghen Debating the 'awakening shi'a': Sunni Perceptions of the Iranian Revolution; M.Hatina Interesting Egypt and Shi'ism at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century; R.Brunner The Sunni-Shi'i Paradox

Genres: Islam, History, Middle East, Religion

290 pages, Paperback

First published November 8, 2011