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Sunnis and Shi'a : A Political History /
A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Mohammed died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had inspired the Prophet to appoint his cousin a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- PART ONE. BETWEEN POLITICS AND RELIGION
- 1. Caliphate and Imamate
- 2. Rivalry and Convergence
- 3. Islam as Ideology: Sunni and Shi'a Islamism
- 4. An Islamist International?
- 5. From Pan-Islamism to Sectarianism
- PART TWO. MANAGING SECTARIAN DIFFERENCE
- 6. Iraq: On the Frontier of Sunnism and Shi'ism
- 7. Bahrain: The Legacy of a Conquest
- 8. Pakistan: From Muslim State to Islamic State
- 9. Pragmatic Sectarianism? Sunnis and Shi'a in Saudi Arabia and Iran
- 10. Yemen: Zaydism between Sunnism and Shi'ism
- 11. Lebanon: The Search for a New Sectarian Pact
- Conclusion
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index