The Twelver Shia in modern times : religious culture & political history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2001.
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| Series: | Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia.
v. 72. |
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Table of Contents:
- A Shiite in Mecca : the strange case of Mecca-born Syrian and Persian sayyid Muḥammad Ḥaydar (d. 1139/1727) / Marco Salati
- Casting away the self : the mysticism of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʼī / Juan R.I. Cole
- An absence filled with presence : Shaykhiyya hermeneutics of the occultation / Mohammed Ali Amir-Moezzi
- Madrasa and learning in 19th-century Najaf and Karbalāʼ / Meir Litvak
- The clerics of Jabal ʻĀmil and the reform of religious teaching in Najaf since the beginning of the 20th century / Sabrina Mervin
- Aspects of the social structure of Shiite society in Modern Iraq / Peter Heine
- 19th-century Ottoman and Iranian encounters : Ahmed Midhat Efendi and Ebrāhīm Jān Moʻṭṭar (Moḥammad Bāqer Bawānātī) / Johann Strauss
- Why do they cry? criticisms of Muḥarram celebrations in Tsarist and socialist Azerbaijan / Volker Adam
- The controversy about the Shaikhiyya tendency among Shia ʻulamāʼ in Pakistan / Syed Hussain Arif Naqvi
- The politics of Shahīd-e Jāwīd / Evan Siegel
- A Shiite cleric's criticism of Shiism : Mūsā al-Mūsawī / Rainer Brunner
- Marjaʻiyya and Shūrā / Roswitha Badry
- "The tragedy of Fāṭīma al-Zahrā" in the debate of two Shiite theologians in Lebanon / Stephan Rosiny
- Shaykh Muḥammad al-Khāliṣī (1890-1963) and his political role in Iraq and Iran in the 1910s/20s / Pierre-Jean Luizard
- The Shiites in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia (al-Aḥsāʼ) 1913-1953 / Guido Steinberg
- Shīʻī-shuyūʻī or : how to become a Communist in a holy city / Silvia Naef
- The struggle for equal rights as a minority : Shia communal organizations in Pakistan, 1948-1968 / Andreas Rieck
- Foreign missionaries, homemade dissidents and popular Islam : the search for new religious structures in Azerbaijan / Raoul Motika
- Authority in Shiism and constitutional developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Said Amir Arjomand
- Tehran's ecumenical society (majmaʻ al-taqrīb) : a veritable ecumenical revival or a Trojan Horse of Iran? / Wilfried Buchta
- The fear of the guardians : 24 army officers write a letter to President Khatamī / Navid Kermani.