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The Sunna and Shi'a in History

Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East

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  1. Ofra Bengio
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  2. Meir Litvak
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ofra Bengio, Meir Litvak
    Pages 1-16

  3. Responses to Unwanted Authority in Early Islam: Models for Current Shi‘i and Sunni Activists

    • Jacob Lassner
    Pages 17-36

  4. Early Hanbalism and the Shi‘a

    • Nimrod Hurvitz
    Pages 37-50

  5. The Confrontation between Sunni and Shi‘i Empires: Ottoman-Safavid Relations between the Fourteenth and the Seventeenth Century

    • Max Scherberger
    Pages 51-67

  6. Encounters between Shi‘i and Sunni ‘Ulama’ in Ottoman Iraq

    • Meir Litvak
    Pages 69-86

  7. The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shi‘i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq

    • İsmail Safa Üstün
    Pages 87-103

  8. Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shi‘ism

    • Amatzia Baram
    Pages 105-123

  9. Quietists Turned Activists: the Shi‘i Revolution in Iraq

    • Ofra Bengio
    Pages 125-143

  10. The Sunni-Shi‘i Struggle over Lebanon: A New Chapter in the History of Lebanon

    • Eyal Zisser
    Pages 145-161

  11. The Wahhabiyya and Shi‘ism, from 1744/45 to 2008

    • Guido Steinberg
    Pages 163-182

  12. Unity or Hegemony? Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shi’i Divide

    • Ze’ev Maghen
    Pages 183-201

  13. Debating the “Awakening Shi’a”: Sunni Perceptions of the Iranian Revolution

    • Meir Hatina
    Pages 203-221

  14. Interesting Times

    • Rainer Brunner
    Pages 223-241

  15. Epilogue

    • Ofra Bengio, Meir Litvak
    Pages 243-251

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 253-278
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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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"Although there have been a few previous works on the subject of ecumenism and conflict in Islam between Sunnism and Shi'ism, none has had the breadth and depth of this book. It will appeal to readers who want to be better informed about an important area that is vital to understanding what is going on the in the Middle East. It contains the work of a good range of writers who are strong in this area." - Moojan Momen, author of An Introduction to Shi'i Islam and Understanding Religion

About the authors

MEIR LITVAK Professor 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 Professor in Middle East History at Tel Aviv University.

MEIR Litvak is the Director of the Center for Iranian Studies and an Associate Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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