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The Wahhabiyya and Shiâism, from 1744/45 to 2008
2011Wahhabi anti-Shi‘ism has gained increased attention in the international media since 2005, just as the civil war in Iraq has increased the wider public‘s awareness of the confessional divide between Shi‘is and Sunnis in the Muslim world. Indeed, the Sunni Jihadists of al-Qa‘ida in Mesopotamia (al-Qa‘ida fi Bilad al-Rafidayn) even declared an all-out ...
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Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shiâism
2011After the British army completed the occupation of Iraq in November 1918, and throughout the existence of the modern Iraqi state, grass-root cooperation, coexistence, and even intermarriage between Sunni and Shi‘i Arabs became commonplace in the large cities — theological differences notwithstanding.
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Unity or Hegemony? Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shiâi Divide
2011Ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has striven to fulfill the role of flagship of Islamic revival and leader of the Muslim world. As with the Soviet Union in its heyday, there have been times when domestic preoccupations distracted the Iranian administration from this central objective, and other times when regional or international ...
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The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shiâi Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq
2011The 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 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 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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