A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is
Georgetown University Press (Verlag)
978-1-62616-586-1 (ISBN)
Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day, John McHugo describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi’ism evolved as different sects during the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the Sunni Ottomans and Shi’i Safavids ensured that the split would continue into the modern age. In recent decades, this centuries-old divide has acquired a new toxicity that has resulted in violence across the Arab world and other Muslim countries.
Definitive, insightful, and accessible, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is is an essential guide to understanding the genesis, development, and manipulation of the schism that for far too many people has come to define Islam and the Muslim world.
John McHugo is an honorary senior fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Syria: A Recent History and A Concise History of the Arabs.
List of Maps
Glossary
Preface
Part One
1. In the Beginning: Before There Were Sunnis and Shi'is
2. How Civil War Came to Islam
3. Of Umayyads and Abbasids
4. The Split Between Sunnis and Shi'is
5. Of Ismailis, Assassins, Druze, Zaydis, Gnostic Shi'is, Alawis and Sufis
6. How Iran Became Shi'i
7. The Ottoman Empire, India and the Muslim Reformation
Part Two
8. The Long Nineteenth Century and the Coming of Western Dominanace
9. Between the Two World Wars
10. Tides Ebb and Flow
11. The Iranian Revolution and The Iran-Iraq War
12. From the Iran Revolution to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
13. Wedges into Fault-Lines
Family Trees
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Sources and Further Reading
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.06.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
| Verlagsort | Washington, DC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-62616-586-6 / 1626165866 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-62616-586-1 / 9781626165861 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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