03948cam a2200673Ii 4500 on1032375603 OCoLC 20200709060612.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 180426s2017 dcubj ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T N$T JSTOR 9781626165885 (electronic bk.) 1626165882 (electronic bk.) 9781626165861 1626165866 9781626165878 1626165874 1797022 (N$T) (OCoLC)1032375603 22573/ctv102nq2 JSTOR BP191 .M44 2017eb REL 037000 bisacsh POL 059000 bisacsh REL 037010 bisacsh REL 037050 bisacsh POL 011000 bisacsh REL 037040 bisacsh 297.8/042 23 MAIN McHugo, John, 1951- author. A concise history of Sunnis & Shi'is / John McHugo. Concise history of Sunnis and Shi'is Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource : maps, genealogical tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier "First published 2017 in Great Britain by Saqi Books"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. In the Beginning : Before There Were Sunnis and Shi'is -- How Civil War Came to Islam -- Of Umayyads and Abbasids -- The Split Between Sunnis and Shi'is -- Of Ismailis, Assassins, Druze, Zaydis, Gnostic Shi'is, Alawis and Sufis -- How Iran Became Shi'i -- The Ottoman Empire, India and the Muslim Reformation -- The Long Nineteenth Century and the Coming of Western Dominance -- Between the Two World Wars -- Tides Ebb and Flow -- The Iranian Revolution and The Iran-Iraq War -- From the Iranian Revolution to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq -- Wedges into Fault-Lines. 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 Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi'ism evolved as different and contending sects during the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the empires of the Sunni Ottomans and Shi' Sfavids ensured that the split would continue into the modern age. Today the full, destructive force of this historical conflict for the soul of the Muslim world is expressed by the struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran--with no end in sight. Definitive, insightful, and accessible, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is is an essential guide to understanding the genesis, development, and manipulation of the schism that has come to define Islam and the Muslim world. Includes five black & white maps, a glossary, and a list of sources and further reading. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 26, 2018). Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Islamic sects History. Sunnites History. Shiites History. Islamic sects. fast (OCoLC)fst00980055 Shiites. fast (OCoLC)fst01115976 Sunnites. fast (OCoLC)fst01138714 RELIGION / Islam / General bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern bisacsh History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Electronic books. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1797022 EBSCOhost EBSC 1797022 92 N$T 57582 57582