The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism 9780190689469, 0190689463

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Table of contents :
Cover
THE CALIPH AND THE IMAM: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Plates
List of Maps
Note on Spelling and Transliterations
Prologue: From Karbala to Damascus
PART I: The Formation of Sunnism and Shiism, 632–1500
1: After the Prophet
2: Sunni Reassertion and the Crusades
3: Polemics and Confessional Ambiguity
PART II: The Shaping of Muslim Empires, 1500–1800
4: The Age of Confessionalisation
5: Muslim Dynasties on the Indian Subcontinent
6: Reform and Reinvention in the Eighteenth Century
PART III: Empire and the State, 1800–1979
7: British India and Orientalism
8: Ottoman Reorganisation and European Intervention
9: The Mandates
10: The Muslim Response
PART IV: Revolution and Rivalry, 1979–
11: The Religion of Martyrdom
12: Export and Containment of Revolution
13: Regime Change
14: The Arab Uprisings
Conclusion: Every Place is Karbala
Endnotes
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Conclusion
Bibliography
Interviews
Journals
Websites
Unpublished PhDs
Unpublished Masters
Reports
Bibliography Entries
Encyclopedia Entries
Books and Articles
News Sources
Think Tank Publications
Index

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