The Other Islam: Shi'ism: From Idol-Breaking to Apocalyptic Mahdism - Brossura

Da'mi, Muhammed Al

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1477262369 ISBN 13: 9781477262368

Casa editrice: AuthorHouse, 2012

Riassunto

The reputation of Shi'ism in the Islamic world, as elsewhere, has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this important new study, The author moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Prophet Muhammed and Ali, together with some of the early Muslims (the precursors of Shi'ism) were struggling to solve. The issues were many: the Idolatry; their social and economic crystallizations in class, tribalism, gender and ethnicity attitudes; the necessity of the revolutionary; the continuity of the rebellious ethos; the question of the non-Arab converts to Islam; the exaggeration of the status of the imams (Shi'i extremism); the extension of the Shi'i idol-Breaking spirit to encompass modern issues and novel contemporary phenomena. The author brings to the discussion of these complicated questions the lively investigation that many readers are not expected to know and comprehend within the context of the contemporary sectarianism which penetrates and segments the Islamic world.

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L'autore:

Muhammed Al Da'mi is Professor of English and Orientalist Literature. He worked in the academia for more than 27 years, Baghdad, Aden, Irbid and ASU (Arizona). He is author of a number of books and numerous scholarly papers in Arabic and English. He contributes to the Arabic press almost weekly. Al Da'mi is a member in a number of Iraqi and Arabic cultural and specialized societies, including The House of Wisdom, Baghdad. He has been interviewed by tens of satellite channels both in Arabic and English.

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Book by Dami Muhammed Al

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• Editore: AuthorHouse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1477262369
• ISBN 13: 9781477262368
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210