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The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shi‘i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq

2011
The establishment of the Safavid dynasty in Iran in 1501 resulted in continuous rivalry and friction between the Ottomans and Safavids over the control of the Baghdad area, where six of die Twelver Shi‘a Imams were buried. Baghdad was crucial for the Safavids for two reasons.
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The Responsibilities of Political Office in a Shi‘i Caliphate and the Delineation of Public Duties under the Fatimids

2011
The Fatimids rose to political dominion in North Africa in 909. The new caliph, al-Mahdi, was already imam of the Shici followers but, until then, he had not actually ruled a politically defined territory. However, he and his successors thereafter were both imams in the religious sense and also rulers of an empire that grew from its original base in ...
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The Story of the Shi’a

2013
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The Revival of the Shi’a after the Qajars

2013
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Debating the “Awakening Shi‘a”

2014
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Kurds, Persian Nationalism, and Shi’i Rule

2014
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The Institutionalization of the Shi’i Ulama, 1796–1963

2013
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The Sunni-Shi‘i Struggle over Lebanon

2014
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The Confrontation between Sunni and Shi‘i Empires

2014
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Encounters between Shi‘i and Sunni ‘Ulama’ in Ottoman Iraq

2014
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