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Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq: The 'ulama' of Najaf and Karbala' »
Authors: Meir Litvak, Charles Tripp
ISBN-13: 9780521623568, ISBN-10: 0521623561
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Meir Litvak
Book Synopsis
Explores the social and political dynamics of nineteenth-century Shi'ism and through this sheds light on modern debates.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Note on transliteration | ||
| List of abbreviations | ||
| Map | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | The community: learning and leadership | 19 |
| 1 | The community of learning: concept and organization | 21 |
| 2 | Leadership in the age of multiple centers | 45 |
| 3 | Monopolization of leadership in Najaf | 64 |
| 4 | Diffusion, centralization, and politicization | 80 |
| 5 | Determinants of status and leadership | 96 |
| Pt. 2 | The 'ulama' between the Ottomans and the Qajars | 115 |
| 6 | The shrine cities, the Mamluks, and Iran | 117 |
| 7 | The 'ulama' and the reassertion of direct Ottoman control | 135 |
| 8 | The 'ulama' and Ottoman centralization policy | 150 |
| 9 | The changing political triangle, 1875-1904 | 165 |
| Conclusion | 179 | |
| Appendix | 189 | |
| Notes | 194 | |
| Glossary | 235 | |
| Bibliography | 238 | |
| Index | 250 |
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