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Sacred Space And Holy War
Juan Cole
The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam
I.B.Tauris
October 2002
224 pages ISBN: 1860647367 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction Religion
Juan Cole examines Shi'i Islam as a world religion that has
faced modernity on its own terms. He explores the little
known history of Shi'i communities as far afield as Bahrain
and India, giving attention as well to important centers
such as Lebanon , Iraq, and Iran. He demonstrates the way in
which the Shi'is have sought to define space and time as
sacred, and to defend those spaces from encroachment by the
Other, whether that other be Sunni Arab, Hindu, or European
Christian.
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