A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781626165878

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By John McHugo
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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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229 x 152 mm
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500 g
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347

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List of Maps Glossary Preface Part One1. In the Beginning: Before There Were Sunnis and Shi'is 2. How Civil War Came to Islam 3. Of Umayyads and Abbasids 4. The Split Between Sunnis and Shi'is 5. Of Ismailis, Assassins, Druze, Zaydis, Gnostic Shi'is, Alawis and Sufis 6. How Iran Became Shi'i7. The Ottoman Empire, India and the Muslim Reformation Part Two 8. The Long Nineteenth Century and the Coming of Western Dominanace 9. Between the Two World Wars 10. Tides Ebb and Flow 11. The Iranian Revolution and The Iran-Iraq War 12. From the Iran Revolution to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq 13. Wedges into Fault-Lines Family Trees Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Sources and Further Reading Index

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