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January 13, 2024

The House Divided Islam’s Sunni-Shia Conflict

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Free Download The House Divided: Islam’s Sunni-Shia Conflict by Barnaby Rogerson
English | January 4th, 2024 | ISBN: 1781257256 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 3.40 MB
Rogerson’s timely book begins with the contemporary Middle East and the proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies and Shiite Iran. To understand these, he suggests, we must understand the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, the accidental coup that set aside the claims of Ali, and the slaughter of Ali’s son Husayn at Kerbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender fault line in the Middle East.

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January 11, 2024

And Then We Work for God Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey

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Free Download Kimberly Hart, "And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey"
English | 2013 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0804786607, 0804783306 | EPUB | 7,6 mb
Turkey’s contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two villages, this book considers rural spiritual practices and describes a living, evolving Sunni Islam, influenced and transformed by local and national sources of religious orthodoxy.

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