The Twelver Shia in modern times : : religious culture & political history / / edited by Rainer Brunner and Werner Ende.

• Superior document: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
• TeilnehmendeR: Brunner, Rainer,; Ende, Werner, 1937-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- PART ONE Theology and Learning -- A Shiite in Mecca. The Strange Case of Mecca-born Syrian and Persian sayyid Muḥammad Ḥaydar (d. 1139/1727) -- Casting Away the Self: The Mysticism of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī -- An Absence Filled with Presences. Shaykhiyya Hermeneutics of the Occultation -- Madrasa and Learning in 19th-Century Najaf and Karbalāʾ -- The Clerics of Jabal ʿĀmil and the Reform of Religious Teaching in Najaf since the Beginning of the 20th Century -- Aspects of the Social Structure of Shiite Society in Modern Iraq -- PART TWO Internal Debates and the Role of Dissidents -- 19th-Century Ottoman and Iranian Encounters: Ahmed Midhat Efendi and Ebrāhīm Jān Moʿaṭṭar (Moḥammad Bāqer Bawānātī) -- Why do they cry? Criticisms of Muḥarram Celebrations in Tsarist and Socialist Azerbaijan -- The Controversy about the Shaikhiyya Tendency among Shia ʿulamāʾ in Pakistan -- The Politics of Shahīd-e Jāwīd -- A Shiite Cleric's Criticism of Shiism: Mūsā al-Mūsawī -- Marjaʿiyya and Shūrā -- "The Tragedy of Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ" in the Debate of two Shiite Theologians in Lebanon -- PART THREE Ideology and Politics in the 20th Century -- Shaykh Muḥammad al-Khāliṣī (1890-1963) and his Political Role in Iraq and Iran in the 1910s/20s -- The Shiites in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia (al-Aḥsāʾ) 1913-1953 -- Shīʿī-shuyūʿī or: How to Become a Communist in a Holy City -- The Struggle for Equal Rights as a Minority: Shia Communal Organizations in Pakistan, 1948-1968 -- Foreign Missionaries, Homemade Dissidents and Popular Islam. The Search for New Religious Structures in Azerbaijan -- PART FOUR The Case of the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Authority in Shiism and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Tehran's Ecumenical Society (majmaʿ al-taqrīb): a Veritable Ecumenical Revival or a Trojan Horse of Iran? -- The Fear of the Guardians. 24 Army Officers Write a Letter to President Khātamī -- Bibliography and Abbreviations -- Index -- Index of Persons -- Index of Geographical and Technical Terms -- Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia.