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 two communities from early Islamic history to the present. MEIR LITVAK Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Ofra Bengio is a Senior Research Fellow at The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Middle East History at Tel Aviv University. INDICE: PART I: SUNNA AND SHI'A IN THE AGE OF MUSLIM EMPIRES - Responses to Unwanted Authority in Early Islam: 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 Empires: 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 Dilemmain Handling the Shi'i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq; 'I.S.Üstün' - PART II: SUNNIS AND SHI'IS AND THE MODERN STATES - Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shi'ism; 'A.Baram' - Quietists Turned Activists: the Shi'i Revolution in Iraq; 'O.Bengio' - The Sunni-Shi'i Struggle over Lebanon: 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 'awakeningshi'a': Sunni Perceptions of the Iranian Revolution; 'M.Hatina' - Interesting Times: Egypt and Shi'ism at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century; 'R.Brunner' - Epilogue: The Sunni-Shi'i Paradox
- ISBN: 978-0-230-12092-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 286
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés