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 |
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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 |
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Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Interviews -- Journals -- Websites -- Unpublished PhDs -- Unpublished Masters -- Reports -- Bibliography Entries -- Encyclopedia Entries -- Books and Articles -- News Sources -- Think Tank Publications -- Index |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
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ʻĀʼishah, approximately 614-678
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ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
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ʻĀʼishah, approximately 614-678 |
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ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661 |
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Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 |
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Islam -- History.
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Shīʻah -- Relations -- Sunnites.
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Sunnites -- Relations -- Shīʻah.
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Death and burial of a person
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Interfaith relations
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Islam
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Shīʻah
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Sunnites
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Religion & beliefs.
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Religion.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780190689483 |
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019068948X |
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