Authors: Juan Cole, Juan Cole
ISBN-13: 9781860647369, ISBN-10: 1860647367
Format: Paperback
Publisher: I. B.Tauris & Company, Limited
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the editor of International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Juan Cole examines Shi'i Islam as a world religion that has faced modernity on its own terms. He explores the little known history of Shi'i communities as far afield as Bahrain and India, giving attention as well to important centers such as Lebanon , Iraq, and Iran. He demonstrates the way in which the Shi'is have sought to define space and time as sacred, and to defend those spaces from encroachment by the Other, whether that other be Sunni Arab, Hindu, or European Christian.
1 | Introduction | 1 |
Early Modern Arab Shi'ites and Iran | ||
2 | The Shi'ites as an Ottoman Minority | 16 |
3 | Rival Empires of Trade and Shi'ism in Eastern Arabia | 31 |
4 | Jurisprudence: The Akhbari-Usuli Struggle | 58 |
5 | Indian Money and the Shi'ite Shrine Cities | 78 |
6 | Mafia, Mob and Shi'ism in Iraq | 99 |
India and the British Empire | ||
7 | The Shi'ite Discovery of the West | 123 |
8 | Women and the Making of Shi'ism | 138 |
9 | Sacred Space and Holy War: The Issue of Jihad | 161 |
The Twentieth Century | ||
10 | Shi'ites as National Minorities | 173 |
11 | The Modernity of Theocracy | 189 |