Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Matthiesen, Toby

Title The Caliph and the Imam The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023

Copies

Description 1 online resource (961 p.)
Contents Cover -- THE CALIPH AND THE IMAM: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Maps -- Note on Spelling and Transliterations -- Prologue: From Karbala to Damascus -- PART I: The Formation of Sunnism and Shiism, 632-1500 -- 1: After the Prophet -- 2: Sunni Reassertion and the Crusades -- 3: Polemics and Confessional Ambiguity -- PART II: The Shaping of Muslim Empires, 1500-1800 -- 4: The Age of Confessionalisation -- 5: Muslim Dynasties on the Indian Subcontinent -- 6: Reform and Reinvention in the Eighteenth Century
PART III: Empire and the State, 1800-1979 -- 7: British India and Orientalism -- 8: Ottoman Reorganisation and European Intervention -- 9: The Mandates -- 10: The Muslim Response -- PART IV: Revolution and Rivalry, 1979- -- 11: The Religion of Martyrdom -- 12: Export and Containment of Revolution -- 13: Regime Change -- 14: The Arab Uprisings -- Conclusion: Every Place is Karbala -- Endnotes -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14
Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Interviews -- Journals -- Websites -- Unpublished PhDs -- Unpublished Masters -- Reports -- Bibliography Entries -- Encyclopedia Entries -- Books and Articles -- News Sources -- Think Tank Publications -- Index
Summary No sectarian division has had a more momentous impact than that between the two dominant branches of Islam. Widely considered the world's leading expert on the subject, Toby Matthiesen offers the full story of the Sunni-Shia split, delving down to its roots in the early days of Islam and following it to the present day and its effect on current events not just in the Middle East but globally
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Death and burial
ʻĀʼishah, approximately 614-678
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
ʻĀʼishah, approximately 614-678
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
Islam -- History.
Shīʻah -- Relations -- Sunnites.
Sunnites -- Relations -- Shīʻah.
Death and burial of a person
Interfaith relations
Islam
Shīʻah
Sunnites
Religion & beliefs.
Religion.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190689483
019068948X