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The Formative Period of Twelver Shiism by Andrew J. Newman Publisher Comments Shows how the frictions and disparities between the different pockets of believers scattered throughout the Eastern Islamic world in the late ninth and tenth centuries, the relations between each of these and the Abbasid political institution favoured... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper 
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Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in India by Toby M. Howarth Publisher Comments The Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in Indialooks at the minority identity of India's Shi'i Muslims and the sermons preached at their mourning gatherings. These mourning commemorations are held by thousands of Shi'i Muslims across the world to... (read more) List Price $200.00 Your price: $43.26 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Gender, Sainthood, & Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi'ism by Karen G. Ruffle Publisher Comments In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles. Ruffle focuses on the annual... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $57.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mahdis and Millenarians (08 Edition) by William Frederick Tucker Publisher Comments Mahdis and Millenarians is a study of early extremist Shiites in Iraq and Iran. These sectarians originated certain doctrines and religious practices that influenced a number of later Shiite religious and political movements. Their millenarian... (read more) List Price $30.99 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Shi Ism 2ND Edition by Heinz Halm Publisher Comments Heinz Halm's work presents a thorough and accessible discussion of the history, theology, and current state of this branch of Islam. Newly revised, Shi'ism includes updated information on the fate of the Shi'ite revolution in Iran as well as a new... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Origins of the Shi a: Identity, Ritual, and Sacred Space in Eighth-Century Kufa (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) by Najam Haider Publisher Comments The Sunnī-Shi'a schism is often framed as a dispute over the identity of the successor to Muhammad. In reality, however, this fracture only materialized a century later in the important southern Iraqi city of Kūfa (present-day Najaf). This book... (read more) Your price: $99.00 New - Hardcover
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The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Isma'ilis Against the Islamic World by Marshall G. S. Hodgson Publisher Comments The sect known as the Assassins, a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the Man in the Mountain encountered by the Crusaders. But it was not defeat at the hands of Christians... (read more) Your price: $28.50 New - Trade Paper
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Mahdis and Millenarians: Shiite Extremists in Early Muslim Iraq by William Frederick Tucker Publisher Comments Mahdis and Millenarians is a study of early extremist Shiites in Iraq and Iran. These sectarians originated certain doctrines and religious practices that influenced a number of later Shiite religious and political movements. Their millenarian... (read more) Your price: $104.75 New - Hardcover
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Shi'ism: A Religion of Protest by Hamid Dabashi Publisher Comments For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi’ism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of Shi’ism as a religion of protest—successful only... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Shi'i Theology in Iran by Ori Goldberg Publisher Comments Taking a theologically oriented method for engaging with historical and cultural phenomena, this book explores the challenge, offered by revolutionary Shi'i theology in Iran, to Western conventions on theology, revolution and religion's role in the... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price: $120.31 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Shi'ism: A Religion of Protest by Hamid Dabashi Publisher Comments For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi’ism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of Shi’ism as a religion of protest—successful only... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Enchanted Modern : Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon (06 Edition) by Lara Deeb Publisher Comments "A remarkable book that opens new vistas on Shi'I Islam and offers the reader a richly textured and insight-filled excursion into a contemporary Shi'I community. It will become the source on contemporary Shi'ism in Lebanon."--A. R. Norton, Boston... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society) by Justin Jones Publisher Comments Interest in Shi'ism Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely... (read more) Your price: $95.00 New - Hardcover
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Isma'ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) by Jonah Steinberg Publisher Comments The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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Shiites : Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community (92 Edition) by David Pinault Publisher Comments This book describes what Shiism means to those who actually practice it and serves as both an excellent introduction to the subject and an original work of scholarship.... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras by Jonah Blank Publisher Comments In this important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology. Combining orthodox Muslim prayer, dress... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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Textbook on Shi'a Islam by Syed Rizvi Publisher Comments Moderate and Balanced Muslims; Fundamentalists and Terrorists; Shias and Sunnis - these labels are household words throughout the world these days. Ordinary people come across these groups often through the news media. Some certainly are keen to learn... (read more) Your price: $16.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Women of Karbala by Kamran Scot (edt) Aghaie Publisher Comments Commemorating the Battle of Karbala, in which the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hosayn and seventy-two of his family members and supporters were martyred in 680 CE, is the central religious observance of Shi'i Islam. Though much has been written about the... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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Shia Cresent: Emergence of World War 3 by Jamai Haquani Synopsis A Shia Domination in the Middle East? Nuclear Capable Iran could give rise to a Shia dominance in the Middle East spanning from Iran to the Mediterranean and eventually threaten the European region and the west, and thereby causing the entire region to... (read more) Your price: $18.25 New - Trade Paper
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Isma'ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community by Jonah Steinberg Publisher Comments "This is a fascinating and unrivaled account of transnational Isma'ilism. Steinberg admirably brings together globalization theories and fascinating ethnographic material to produce a rich narrative of this interesting community. It will be the most... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $53.21 Google eBooks - Electronic
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