The Shīʿīs in Palestine

From the Medieval Golden Age until the Present

Yaron Friedman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72958-2 (ISBN)

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In The Shīʿīs in Palestine Yaron Friedman offers a survey of the presence of Shīʿism in the region of Palestine (today: Israel) from early Islamic history until the contemporary period. It brings to light many pieces of information and interesting developments that are not widely known, in addition to the general point that, contrary to common belief, the Shīʿī community has played a significant role in the history of Palestine. The volume includes a study of Shīʿī shrines in Palestine, as well as showing the importance of these Muslim sites and holy towns in Palestine in the Shīʿī religion.

Yaron Friedman, Ph.D. (Sorbonne, 2006), is lecturer and Arabic instructor at the University of Haifa. He published The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria (Brill, 2010). He has also published articles in Studia Islamica, Der Islam, Le Museon and entries in the Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition).

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Note on Translations, Dates, and Transliteration

Introduction

Medieval and Modern Palestine

1 From Immigration to the Golden Age

1 The First Shīʿīs in Palestine

2 Palestine under Shīʿī Rule

3 Giving Palestine a Shīʿī Identity: Tombs of the ahl al-bayt

4 Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Shīʿīs of Tiberias and Acre

5 The End of the “Shīʿī Century”

2 The Disappearance of the Shīʿī Community in Palestine

1 The Ayyūbid Restoration

2 Mamlūk Oppression

3 Persecutions

3 The Shīʿīs in Galilee

1 The Region of Safed

2 The Matāwila in Northern Palestine

3 Palestinian and Zionist Views on the Shīʿī Villages

4 The Palestinian Fear of the Return of the Shīʿīs

5 Remaining Shīʿī Sects

4 Shīʿī Folklore and Religious Traditions about Palestine

1 Shīʿism in Palestinian Folklore

2 Shīʿī Traditions concerning Holy Towns in Palestine

Conclusion

Appendix 1: The Ṭālibiyyūn in Palestine

Appendix 2: Photos and Inscriptions of Shīʿī Shrines in Palestine

Appendix 3: The Fatwā of Taqī l-Dīn Aḥmad b. Taymiyya concerning the Head of Ḥusayn in Ashkelon

Appendix 4: Israeli Documents: Hūnīn 1948—the Missed Opportunity

Appendix 5: Interviews with Two Palestinian Shaykhs Who Converted to Shīʿism

Appendix 6: A Shīʿī Supplication in the “Shīʿīs of Palestine” Facebook Page

Appendix 7: Interview with a Member of the Dāwūdī Bohrās

Timeline of Shīʿī History in Palestine

Glossary of Shīʿī Terms in the Palestinian Context

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.02.2025
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	arabisch; englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	407 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-72958-5 / 9004729585
ISBN-13	978-90-04-72958-2 / 9789004729582
Zustand	Neuware