Sunnis and Shi'a : a political history of discord /
"This book is a historical and sociological reading of the relation between Sunnis and Shias from the inception of the dispute for Mohammed's succession until today. It is divided in two parts. The first part offers a comprehensive history of the divide. It shows how Shiism was, during muc...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2020]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvp2n4ft |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- PART ONE. BETWEEN POLITICS AND RELIGION
- 1. Caliphate and Imamate
- 2. Rivalry and Convergence
- 3. Islam as Ideology: Sunni and Shi'a Islamism
- 4. An Islamist International?
- 5. From Pan-Islamism to Sectarianism
- PART TWO. MANAGING SECTARIAN DIFFERENCE
- 6. Iraq: On the Frontier of Sunnism and Shi'ism
- 7. Bahrain: The Legacy of a Conquest
- 8. Pakistan: From Muslim State to Islamic State
- 9. Pragmatic Sectarianism? Sunnis and Shi'a in Saudi Arabia and Iran
- 10. Yemen: Zaydism between Sunnism and Shi'ism
- 11. Lebanon: The Search for a New Sectarian Pact
- Conclusion
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography.