Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements / / edited by Muhammad Afzal Upal, Carole M. Cusack.

• Superior document: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion Series ; Volume 21
• TeilnehmendeR: Upal, Muhammad Afzal,; Cusack, Carole M., 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; Volume 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 794 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections—on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist, and fringe Islamic movements—the authors provide historical overviews, analyses, and in-depth studies of large and small Islamic and related groups from all around the world. The contents of this volume will be of interest to both newcomers to the study of Islam and established scholars of religion who wish to engage with the dynamic label of Islam and the many impactful movements of the Islamic world.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Islamic sects and movements / Carole M. Cusack and M. Afzal Upal -- Sectarianism in SunnīIslam / Ronald Geaves -- Tablīghī Jamāʻat / Zacharias Pieri -- The Muslim Brotherhood / Rickard Lagervall -- The Gülen Movement : between Turkey and international exile / Caroline Tee -- The Islam Nusantara Movement in Indonesia / Hisanori Kato -- Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) : a grassroots movement advocating moderate Islam / Faried F. Saenong -- Women and Islamic movements / Eva Nisa -- Imāmiyya Shīʻa (The Twelvers) / Mohammad Fazlhashemi -- Zaydism / Najam Haider -- The Ismāʻīlīs and their traditions / Farhad Daftary -- The Dāʼūdī Bohras (Mustaʻlī Ismāʻīlī Shīʻa) : using modernity to institutionalise a Fāṭimid tradition / Jonah Blank -- The Alevīs and ʻAlawīs / Yvette Talhamy -- The Heyʼati Movement : charismatic preachers, politics and youth culture / David Thurfjell -- The citadel of Salafism / Joas Wagemakers -- The Taliban / Jon Armajani -- Ḥamās : rhe Islamic resistance movement / Shaul Bartal -- Hizb ut-Tahrir : dreaming of caliphate / Meerim Aitkulova -- Ungoverned or alternatively governed spaces in north-eastern Nigeria : a critical exploration of Boko Haram's Ideological Motif / Benson O. Igboin -- From identity to militancy : the Shīʻa of Hezbollah / Steven Childs -- The Faizrakhmanisty : the Islamic sect as a social problem in Russia / Kaarina Aitamurto -- A genealogy of the theology of Takfirism as a political theory: the case of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) / Emin Poljarevic -- Ṣūfism / Marta Dominguez Diaz -- Javād Nūrbakhsh and the Niʻmatullāhī 'Khaniqahi' order / Milad Milani -- Subud : an Indonesian interpretation of Ṣūfism / Antoon Geels -- René Guénon and traditionalism / William Rory Dickson -- Ṣūfism and the Gurdjieff 'work' : a contested relationship / Carole M. Cusack -- The cultural genetics of the Aḥmadiyya Muslim Jamāʻat / M. Afzal Upal -- The nation of Islam / Edward E. Curtis IV -- The Moorish Science Temple of America / Fathie Ali Abdat -- The Ansaaru Allah community / Susan J. Palmer -- The Druze / Hussam S. Timani -- Yezidism / Victoria Arakelova -- The Bahāʼī faith / Lillith Osborn.