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Rendez-vous à Dabiq : la théologie apocalyptique du groupe "État islamique"
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ISBN: 9782384090587 2384090585 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris: Karthala,

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Le groupe « État islamique » construit sa propagande autour d'un récit apocalyptique qui se déroule dans les environs de Dabiq, localité située au nord-est d'Alep (Syrie), selon lequel le monde se dirige vers une fin dramatique et inéluctable, où les « vrais » croyants lutteront à mort contre une coalition d'infidèles, réunis sous la bannière de l'Antichrist (daggal). Ces combats épiques (malaim) seront précédés de troubles (fitan) qui diviseront la communauté musulmane (umma). Ils culmineront avec l'avènement du Mahdi, suivi du retour sur terre de Jésus (Isa). Ces deux figures messianiques mèneront les musulmans qui auront survécu à ces batailles à la victoire ultime : la conquête de Constantinople et de Rome. Pour ceux qui le reçoivent, ce discours signifie d'abord le rétablissement d'un califat sur la voie prophétique, un signe de la fin des temps selon la tradition. Le groupe « État islamique » n'est ni le premier ni le seul mouvement terroriste à légitimer la violence par une réappropriation des traditions apocalyptiques sunnites et par une réinterprétation de celles-ci à son bénéfice. Or, on ne peut récuser simplement ce récit sous prétexte de l'incompétence en théologie musulmane de ses auteurs. Cet ouvrage montre au contraire leur proximité avec le courant dominant de pensée du sunnisme. Il prend au sérieux les croyances qui animent les acteurs du groupe « État islamique », en décryptant une narration qui repose moins sur le Coran que sur les traditions. Il représente ainsi un défi pour le lecteur, notamment pour celui qui est musulman, et invite à réfléchir à des questions majeures qui touchent à l'essence même des visions du monde et de l'homme en islam


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The Caliph and the Imam : the making of Sunnism and Shiism
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ISBN: 9780198806554 0198806558 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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"The authoritative account of the sectarian division that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world. In 632, soon after the prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. The majority argued that the new leader of Islam should be elected by the community's elite. Others believed only members of Muhammad's family could lead. This dispute over who should guide Muslims, the appointed Caliph or the bloodline Imam, marks the origin of the Sunni-Shii split in Islam. Toby Matthiesen explores this hugely significant division from its origins to the present day. Moving chronologically, his book sheds light on the many ways that it has shaped the Islamic world, outlining how over the centuries Sunnism and Shiism became Islams two main branches, particularly after the Muslim Empires embraced sectarian identity. It reveals how colonial rule institutionalised divisions between Sunnism and Shiism both on the Indian subcontinent and in the greater Middle East, giving rise to pan-Islamic resistance and Sunni and Shii revivalism. It then focuses on the fall-out from the 1979 revolution in Iran and the US-led military intervention in Iraq. As Matthiesen shows, however, though Sunnism and Shiism have had a long and antagonistic history, most Muslims have led lives characterised by confessional ambiguity and peaceful co-existence. Tensions arise when sectarian identity becomes linked to politics. Based on a synthesis of decades of scholarship in numerous languages, The Caliph and the Imam will become the standard text for readers looking for a deeper understanding of contemporary sectarian conflict and its historical roots."--Publisher's synopsis.


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Sunni Communities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2013-2021 : Securitization, Secularization and Privatization.
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ISBN: 9004543201 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boston : BRILL,

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This book reorients our understanding of contemporary Iran by examining the relationship, the interaction and socio-political behaviour between the Islamic Republic and its Sunni minorities.


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Shi'ite rulers, Sunni rivals, and Christians in between : Muslim-Christian relations in Fāṭimid Palestine and Egypt
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ISBN: 1463244746 Year: 2023 Publisher: Piscataway, New Jersey : Gorgias Press LLC,

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The study of sectarianism in Islam and the study of Muslim-Christian relations are both sub-specialities attracting growing numbers of scholars in Islamic studies. Rarely, though, are these two fields put into direct conversation with each other. In this work, Steven Gertz brings the two together to ask how the Sunni-Shi'a divide in Islam impacts Muslim relationships with Christians. Do tensions within Islam do more to help Muslim relationships with Christians, or harm them? Gertz goes about answering this through a historical study of the Fatimid caliphate in Palestine and Egypt during the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries. He specifically works to understand how Fatimid religious principles (ascertained through the study of law) and politics (ascertained through the study of history) impacted Christians in light of Fatimid-Abbasid rivalry. In the process of doing so, he makes a valuable contribution to the study of Islamic religious identity formation as it concerns sectarianism within Islam and inter-religious relations with non-Muslims.

The just ruler in Shi'ite Islam : the comprehensive authority of the jurist in Imamite jurisprudence.
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ISBN: 0195353293 0585325480 9780585325484 0195119150 9780195119152 9786610471256 6610471258 019505363X 9780195053630 0197739822 9780195353297 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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Since the revolution of 1978-79, the Islamic regime has justified its rule on the basis of the doctrine of ""righteous jurist"". The author of this study shows this concept to have no parallel in Sunni Islam and seeks its origins in the Sunni/Shi'ite schism following the death of the Prophet.

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