South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese commu…
"South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese comm…
South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese commu…
This book sheds light on how the Shiite-dominated government's sectarian policy deepened the divide between Iraq's major communities (Shiites, Sunni Arabs and the Kurds) and led the country on the path of unending sectarian violence. It explains how government's failure to addre…
This work extensively documents and critically discusses traditions of 'Alid piety and their modern contestations of the region.
This book is about the emergence of a stream of ideas in the 1930s and 1940s within Imamiyya Shi°ite context, focusing primarily on the thought of Shariat Sangelaji (1891-1944), who harshly criticized a number of basic theological beliefs within Imamiyya Shi°a. Accusing them of …
This book is about the emergence of a stream of ideas in the 1930s and 1940s within Imamiyya Shiʻite context, focusing primarily on the thought of Shariat Sangelaji (1891-1944), who harshly criticized a number of basic theological beliefs within Imamiyya Shiʻa. Accusing them of …
A fascinating and richly layered account of how and why the great divide in Islam ... between Sunnis and Shi'is ... occurred. Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Mohammed to the present day, McHugo describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to…
A fascinating and richly layered account of how and why the great divide in Islam--between Sunnis and Shi'is--occurred. Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Mohammed to the present day, McHugo describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the P…
A fascinating and richly layered account of how and why the great divide in Islam--between Sunnis and Shi'is--occurred. Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Mohammed to the present day, McHugo describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the P…
A fascinating and richly layered account of how and why the great divide in Islam--between Sunnis and Shi'is--occurred. Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Mohammed to the present day, McHugo describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the P…