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Roman Catholics & Shi'i Muslims : prayer, passion, & politics / James A. Bill & John Alden Williams.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0807874914
  • 9780807874912
  • 0807874922
  • 9780807874929
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roman Catholics & Shi'i Muslims.DDC classification:
  • 261.2/7 21
LOC classification:
  • BP194.18 .C383 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 11.07
Online resources:
Contents:
Roman Catholicism and Twelver Shiʻism -- The story of the people of the house -- Sacred actors and intercessors -- Redemptive suffering and martyrdom -- Catholic mystics and Islamic Sufis: the confluence of experience -- Law and state -- Authority, justice, and the modern polity.
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Summary: This work explores two influential religions that might seem to have little in common: Twelver Shi'i Islam and Roman Catholicism. It compares the histories of the two faiths, considers parallels between important figures in each, and highlights the similarities they share.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index.

Roman Catholicism and Twelver Shiʻism -- The story of the people of the house -- Sacred actors and intercessors -- Redemptive suffering and martyrdom -- Catholic mystics and Islamic Sufis: the confluence of experience -- Law and state -- Authority, justice, and the modern polity.

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This work explores two influential religions that might seem to have little in common: Twelver Shi'i Islam and Roman Catholicism. It compares the histories of the two faiths, considers parallels between important figures in each, and highlights the similarities they share.

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