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Also by Juan Cole:

Engaging the Muslim World, March 2009
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Sacred Space And Holy War, October 2002
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SACRED SPACE AND HOLY WAR
By: Juan Cole

The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam

I.B.Tauris
October 2002
224 pages
ISBN: 1860647367
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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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