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.