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A concise history of Sunnis & Shi'is /

A fascinating and richly layered account of how and why the great divide in Islam--between Sunnis and Shi'is--occurred. Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Mohammed to the present day, McHugo describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McHugo, John, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In the Beginning : Before There Were Sunnis and Shi'is
  • How Civil War Came to Islam
  • Of Umayyads and Abbasids
  • The Split Between Sunnis and Shi'is
  • Of Ismailis, Assassins, Druze, Zaydis, Gnostic Shi'is, Alawis and Sufis
  • How Iran Became Shi'i
  • The Ottoman Empire, India and the Muslim Reformation
  • The Long Nineteenth Century and the Coming of Western Dominance
  • Between the Two World Wars
  • Tides Ebb and Flow
  • The Iranian Revolution and The Iran-Iraq War
  • From the Iranian Revolution to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
  • Wedges into Fault-Lines.