The Sunna and Shi’a in History

1. Introduction
Ofra Bengio, Meir Litvak

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

3. Early Hanbalism and the Shi‘a
Nimrod Hurvitz

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

5. Encounters between Shi‘i and Sunni ‘Ulama’ in Ottoman Iraq
Meir Litvak

6. The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shi‘i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq
İsmail Safa Üstün

7. Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shi‘ism
Amatzia Baram

8. Quietists Turned Activists: the Shi‘i Revolution in Iraq
Ofra Bengio

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

10. The Wahhabiyya and Shi‘ism, from 1744/45 to 2008
Guido Steinberg

11. Unity or Hegemony? Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shi’i Divide
Ze’ev Maghen

12. Debating the “Awakening Shi’a”: Sunni Perceptions of the Iranian Revolution
Meir Hatina

13. Interesting Times
Rainer Brunner

14. Epilogue
Ofra Bengio, Meir Litvak

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Middle Eastern Politics, International Relations, History of the Middle East, Political Science, Islam