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The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism

Religion
The Caliph and the Imam presents an ambitious and much-needed study of the history, origin, formation, development, and identity-making interactions between Sunni and Shia Islam.
Sayed Hassan Akhlaq
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Anti-Sunnism and anti-Shiism: Minorities, majorities and the question of equivalence

Mediterranean Politics, 2020
The normative assumption that anti-Sunnism and anti-Shiism are two sides of the same coin glosses over differences that are key to understanding the aims and motivations of Shiaand Sunni-centric Islamist actors.
Fanar Haddad
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The Salafi Worldview and the Hermeneutical Limits of Mainstream Sunni Critique of Salafi-Jihadism [PDF]

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2018
The aim of this article is to point to the hermeneutical limits of the critique of mainstream Sunnism vis-a-vis the Salafi-jihadist interpretations with particular reference to the literature produced by the proponents of the IS.
Adis Duderija
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The Caliph and the Imam

, 2023
Abstract The Caliph and the Imam discusses the divide between the Sunnis and the Shia that shaped the Islamic world and contemporary conflict. After the death of Prophet Muhammad, his followers fought over who would succeed him and guide the new faith.
Matthiesen, Toby, Toby Matthiesen
openaire   +3 more sources

Sunnism in Rayy during the Seljūq Period: Sources and Observations

Der Islam, 2016
Abstract:During the 6th-century AH, under Seljūq rule, Rayy was a center of learning, attracting many Ḥanafīs as well as Shāfiʿīs, Zaydīs, Imāmīs, and Muʿtazilīs from other regions. Nevertheless, because of the conflicts during that period between Ḥanafīs and Shāfiʿīs, as well as between Shīʿīs and Sunnis, and then the Mongol invasion, only a handful ...
H. Ansari
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Religious authority and sunnism in the politics of Sultan Abdulhamid II

Middle Eastern Studies
This study focuses on the place of Sunnism in the political vision of Sultan Abdulhamid II. It also examines how Sunni identity was positioned within his broader Pan-Islamist policies.
E. Aksoy, H. Çoban
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Problematizing Ottoman Sunnism: Appropriation of Islamic History and Ahl Al-Baytism in Ottoman Literary and Historical Writing in the Sixteenth Century

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2017
Vefa Erginbaş
exaly   +2 more sources

In Defence of Sunnism: al-Ghazali and the Seljuqs

, 2011
Massimo Campanini
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Renowned Sect, Sunnism and Socio-Sectarian Bickering in Traditional Western Urban Sierra Leone

International Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies, 2022
The renowned sect, Sunnism and sectarian bickering, are part of the same triangle, unavoidable in any analysis of the sectarian life of Traditional Western Urban Sierra Leone.
Bangura, Mohamed
exaly   +2 more sources

Actualiser, redécouvrir, réinventer : les options du Sunnisme

, 2018
The real novelty brought about by the 2011 revolutions is not the Saudi-Iran confrontation, but the exposure of the crisis of Sunnism.
Diez Martino
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