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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Shi'i Islam
    sub title: an introduction
  name:
    name part: Haider, Najam Iftikhar
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 243 pages : maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: "During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muḥammad's death, different ideas and beliefs abounded. It was during this period of roughly three centuries that two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shī;'ism. Sunnī Muslims endorsed the historical caliphate, while Shī'ī; Muslims, supporters of 'Ali, cousin of the Prophet and the fourth caliph, articulated their own distinctive doctrines. The Sunnī-Shī'ī schism is often framed as a dispute over the identity of the successor to Muḥammad, whereas in reality, Sunnī and Shī'ī Muslims also differ on a number of seminal theological doctrines concerning the nature of God and legitimate political and religious authority. This book examines the development of Shī'ī Islam through the lenses of belief, narrative, and memory. In an accessible yet nuanced manner, it conceives of Shī'ism as a historical project undertaken by a segment of the early Muslim community that felt dispossessed. This book also covers, for the first time in English, a wide range of Shī'ī communities from the demographically predominant Twelvers to the transnational Ismā'īlīs to the scholar-activist Zaydīs. The portrait of Shī'ism that emerges is that of a distinctive and vibrant community of Muslims with a remarkable capacity for reinvention and adaptation, grounded in a unique theological interpretation of Islam"--
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I. Theology: 1. 'Adl (rational divine justice); 2. Imāmate (legitimate leadership) -- Part II. Origins: 3. Community; 4. Fragmentation -- Part III. Constructing Shī'ism: 5. Zaydism in the balance between Sunnī and Shī'a; 6. The weight of Ismā'īlī expectations; 7. Twelver Shī'ism and the problem of the hidden imām -- Part IV. Shī'ism in the Modern World: 8. Zaydism at the crossroads; 9. (Nizārī) Ismī'īlism reconstituted; 10. The politicization of the Twelver Shī'a -- Conclusion: Sunnī-Shī'ī relations.
  note: Najam Haider.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Shīʻah
  subject:
    topic: Shīʻah
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Shīʻah
    topic: Doctrines
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Middle East / General
  subject:
    topic: Shīʻah
  subject:
    topic: Shīʻah
    topic: Doctrines
  classification: BP193.5 .H25 2014
  classification: 297.8/2
  classification: HIS026000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Introduction to religion
  identifier: 9781107031432 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107031435 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781107625785 (paperback)
  identifier: 1107625785 (paperback)
  identifier: 2014009780
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140321
    record change date: 20151206124011.0
    record identifier: in00003515179
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng