The Sunna and Shi'a in History

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Responses to Unwanted Authority in Early Islam: Models for Current Shi‘i and Sunni Activists

Chapter 3 Early Hanbalism and the Shi‘a

Chapter 4 The Confrontation between Sunni and Shi‘i Empires: Ottoman-Safavid Relations between the Fourteenth and the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 5 Encounters between Shi‘i and Sunni ‘Ulama’ in Ottoman Iraq

Chapter 6 The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shi‘i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq

Chapter 7 Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shi‘ism

Chapter 8 Quietists Turned Activists: the Shi‘i Revolution in Iraq

Chapter 9 The Sunni-Shi‘i Struggle over Lebanon: A New Chapter in the History of Lebanon

Chapter 10 The Wahhabiyya and Shi‘ism, from 1744/45 to 2008

Chapter 11 Unity or Hegemony? Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shi’i Divide

Chapter 12 Debating the “Awakening Shi’a”: Sunni Perceptions of the Iranian Revolution

Chapter 14 Epilogue