Political quietism in Islam : Sunni and Shīʻī practice and thought /: Sunni and Shīʻī practice and thought. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Saud al-Sarhan.
• Editors: Sarḥān, Saʿūd ibn Ṣāliḥ
• Contents: Introduction -- Saud al-Sarhan, The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia; and Faisal Abullhassan, Johns Hopkins University, USA -- Part I The Concept of Political Quietism: Its Problematics and the Islamic Context -- 1 Making Sense of "Political Quietism" -- An Analytical Intervention -- Jan-Peter Hartung, University of Gottingen, Germany -- 2 Expressions of Political Quietism in Islamic History -- Ebrahim Moosa, University of Notre Dame, USA; and Nicholas Roberts, Sewanee: The University of the South, USA -- Part II Political Quietism in Classical Islam -- 3 The Rightly-Guided Caliphs: The Range of Views Preserved in Hadith -- Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, UK; and Christopher Melchert, University of Oxford, UK -- 4 "Patience in Our Situation Is Better than Sedition": The Shift to Political Quietism in the Sunni Tradition -- Saud al-Sarhan, The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia -- 5 Quietism and Political Legitimacy in Imami Shi'i Jurisprudence: al-Sharif al-Murtada's Treatise on the Legality of Working for the Government Reconsidered -- Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, UK -- Part III Political Quietism in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Thought -- 6 "I'm Only a Village Farmer and a Dervish": Between Political Quietism and Spiritual Leadership: Early Modern Shi'i Sufism and the Challenge of Modernity -- Alessandro Cancian, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK -- 7 Legal Discourses on Hijra in the Caucasus after the Fall of the Caucasus Imamate: Risalat al-sharifa by the Dagestani Scholar 'Abd al-Rahman al-Thughuri -- Mogamed Gizbulaev, Princeton University, USA -- 8 Constitutionalism as Quietist Strategy: The Case of Tunisia -- Jeremy Kleidosty, University of Helsinki, Finland -- 9 "Dropping a Thick Curtain of Forgetting and Disregard": Modern Shi'i Quietism Beyond Politics -- Rainer Brunner, The French National Center for Scientific Research, France. 10 Public Piety and the Politics of Preaching Among Female Preachers in Riyadh -- Laila Makboul, University of Oslo, Norway -- 11 The Gülen Movement in Azerbaijan: Political Quietism or Taqiyya? -- Fuad Aliyve, ADA University, Azerbaijan -- 12 The Neo-Traditionalist Critique of Modernity and the Production of Political Quietism -- Walaa Quisay, University of Oxford, UK.
• Publisher Details: London New York, NY : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 297.81; Sunnites; Shiites; Spiritual life -- Islam; Quietism; Islam and politics; Islam; Islam and politics; Quietism; Shiites; Spiritual life -- Islam; Sunnites; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781838607678; 1838607676; 9781838607654; 9781838607661; 1838607668
• Related ISBNs: 183860765X; 9781838602192; 1838602194
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2020).
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