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Routledge Persian and Shi'i Studies


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This series aims to publish important monographs on all aspects of Shi'i and Iranian history. The Shi'a comprise some 10% of the world's 1 billion Muslims. In Iran Shi'ism has been the established faith since the 16th century, but the Shi'a form a sizeable minority in such other countries as Iraq, various of the Gulf countries, India and Pakistan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, as well as Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and areas in eastern Africa.

The series will aim to highlight especially the work of junior scholars. Special efforts will be made to seek out the work of scholars based elsewhere in Europe, the US and in both the Middle East and the Far East.

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What is Shi'i Islam? An Introduction

What is Shi'i Islam?: An Introduction

1st Edition

By Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Christian Jambet
April 30, 2018

For the public at large Shi’ism often implies a host of confused representations, suggesting more often than not obscurantism, intolerance, political violence and other ignominies running hot or cold in response to world events. In fact for many people, Shi’ism stands for "radical Islam", or – ...

Female Personalities in the Qur'an and Sunna Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi'i Islam

Female Personalities in the Qur'an and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi'i Islam

1st Edition

By Rawand Osman
September 25, 2014

This book investigates the manner in which the Qur’an and sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature. Providing a comprehensive study of all the female personalities mentioned in the Qur’an, the book is selective in the personalities of the sunna, examining the three prominent ...

The Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in India Pulpit of Tears

The Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in India: Pulpit of Tears

1st Edition

By Toby Howarth
April 14, 2011

One of the most important current debates within and about Islam concerns its relation with power. Can Muslims be fundamentally content without power or as a minority? This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons. Indian Shi'i Muslims are a minority within a ...

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