MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2011017424
003 DLC
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008 110505s2011 nyu b 000 0 eng
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020 $a9780230120921 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aBP194.16$b.S855 2011
082 00 $a297.8/04209$223
245 04 $aThe Sunna and Shi'a in history :$bdivision and ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East /$cedited by Ofra Bengio and Meir Litvak.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$cc2011.
263 $a1112
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Ofra Bengio and Meir Litvak -- Responses to unwanted authority in early Islam: models for current Shi'i and Sunni activists / Jacob Lassner -- Early Hanbalism and the Shi'a / Nimrod Hurvitz -- The confrontation between Sunni and Shi'i empires: Ottoman-Safavid relations between the fourteenth and the seventeenth century / Max Scherberger -- Encounters between Shi'i and Sunni 'ulama' in Ottoman Iraq / Meir Litvak -- The Ottoman dilemma in handling the Shi'i challenge in nineteenth-century Iraq / Ismail Safa Ustun -- Religious extremism and ecumenical tendencies in modern Iraqi Shi'ism / Amatzia Baram -- Quietists turned activists: the Shi'i revolution in Iraq--Ofra Bengio -- The Sunni-Shi'i struggle over Lebanon: a new chapter in the history of Lebanon / Eyal Zisser -- The Wahhabiyya and Shi'ism, from 1744/45 to 2008 / Guido Steinberg -- Unity or hegemony? Iranian attitudes to the Sunni-Shi'i divide / Ze'ev Maghen -- Debating the "awakening Shi'a": Sunni perceptions of the Iranian Revolution / Meir Hatina -- Interesting times: Egypt and Shi'ism at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Rainer Brunner -- Epilogue: the Sunni-Shi'i paradox / Ofra Bengio and Meir Litvak.
650 0 $aShīʻah$xRelations$xSunnites.
650 0 $aSunnites$xRelations$xShīʻah.
650 0 $aShīʻah$zIraq$xHistory.
650 0 $aSunnites$zIraq$xHistory.
700 1 $aBengio, Ofra.
700 1 $aLitvak, Meir.