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 two communities from early Islamic history to the present.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2014

ISBN

9781137495068

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Middle Eastern Politics

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Responses to Unwanted Authority in Early Islam: Models for Current Shi'i and Sunni Activists
2 Early Hanbalism and the Shi'a
3 The Confrontation between Sunni and Shi'i Empires: Ottoman-Safavid Relations between the Fourteenth and the Seventeenth Century
4 Encounters between Shi'i and Sunni 'Ulama' in Ottoman Iraq
5 The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shi'i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq
6 Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shi'ism
7 Quietists Turned Activists: the Shi'i Revolution in Iraq
8 The Sunni-Shi'i Struggle over Lebanon: A New Chapter in the History of Lebanon
9 The Wahhabiyya and Shi'ism, from 1744/45 to 2008
10 Unity or Hegemony? Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shi'i Divide
11 Debating the "Awakening Shi'a": Sunni Perceptions of the Iranian Revolution
12 Interesting Times: Egypt and Shi'ism at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Epilogue: The Sunni-Shi'i Paradox
Bibliography
Index