Handbook of Islamic sects and movements

"The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of...

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Other Authors: Upal, Muhammad Afzal (Editor), Cusack, Carole M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2021, [2021]
Series:Brill handbooks on contemporary religion
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Taliban / Jon Armajani
  • Ḥamās : rhe Islamic resistance movement / Shaul Bartal
  • Hizb ut-Tahrir : dreaming of caliphate / Meerim Aitkulova
  • Ungoverned or alternatively governed spaces in north-eastern Nigeria : a critical exploration of Boko Haram's Ideological Motif / Benson O. Igboin
  • From identity to militancy : the Shīʻa of Hezbollah / Steven Childs
  • The Faizrakhmanisty : the Islamic sect as a social problem in Russia / Kaarina Aitamurto
  • A genealogy of the theology of Takfirism as a political theory: the case of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) / Emin Poljarevic
  • Ṣūfism / Marta Dominguez Diaz
  • Javād Nūrbakhsh and the Niʻmatullāhī 'Khaniqahi' order / Milad Milani
  • Subud : an Indonesian interpretation of Ṣūfism / Antoon Geels
  • René Guénon and traditionalism / William Rory Dickson
  • Ṣūfism and the Gurdjieff 'work' : a contested relationship / Carole M. Cusack
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Introduction: Islamic sects and movements / Carole M. Cusack and M. Afzal Upal
  • Sectarianism in SunnīIslam / Ronald Geaves
  • Tablīghī Jamāʻat / Zacharias Pieri
  • The Muslim Brotherhood / Rickard Lagervall
  • The Gülen Movement : between Turkey and international exile / Caroline Tee
  • The Islam Nusantara Movement in Indonesia / Hisanori Kato
  • Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) : a grassroots movement advocating moderate Islam / Faried F. Saenong
  • Women and Islamic movements / Eva Nisa
  • Imāmiyya Shīʻa (The Twelvers) / Mohammad Fazlhashemi
  • Zaydism / Najam Haider
  • The Ismāʻīlīs and their traditions / Farhad Daftary
  • The Dāʼūdī Bohras (Mustaʻlī Ismāʻīlī Shīʻa) : using modernity to institutionalise a Fāṭimid tradition / Jonah Blank
  • The Alevīs and ʻAlawīs / Yvette Talhamy
  • The Heyʼati Movement : charismatic preachers, politics and youth culture / David Thurfjell
  • The citadel of Salafism / Joas Wagemakers
  • The cultural genetics of the Aḥmadiyya Muslim Jamāʻat / M. Afzal Upal
  • The nation of Islam / Edward E. Curtis IV
  • The Moorish Science Temple of America / Fathie Ali Abdat
  • The Ansaaru Allah community / Susan J. Palmer
  • The Druze / Hussam S. Timani
  • Yezidism / Victoria Arakelova
  • The Bahāʼī faith / Lillith Osborn