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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 many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections—on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist, and fringe Islamic movements—the authors provide historical overviews, analyses, and in-depth studies of large and small Islamic and related groups from all around the world. The contents of this volume will be of interest to both newcomers to the study of Islam and established scholars of religion who wish to engage with the dynamic label of Islam and the many impactful movements of the Islamic world.

Islamic sects. --- Islam --- Muslim sects --- Sects, Islamic --- Sects, Muslim --- Sects --- Islamic heresies --- Islamic studies --- Religion

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Islamic sects --- History --- -Islam --- Muslim sects --- Sects, Islamic --- Sects, Muslim --- Sects --- Islamic heresies --- History. --- -History --- Islamic sects - History

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"Long a taboo topic, as well as one that has alarmed outside powers, sectarian conflict in the Middle East is on the rise. The contributors to this book examine sectarian politics in the Persian Gulf, including the GCC states, Yemen, Iran and Iraq, and consider the origins and consequences of sectarianism broadly construed, as it affects ethnic, tribal and religious groups. They also present a theoretical and comparative framework for understanding sectarianism, as well as country-specific chapters based on recent research in the area. Key issues that are scrutinised include the nature of sectarianism, how identity moves from a passive to an active state, and the mechanisms that trigger conflict. The strategies of governments such as rentier economies and the 'invention' of partisan national histories that encourage or manage sectarian differences are also highlighted, as is the role of outside powers in fostering sectarian strife. The volume also seeks to clarify whether movements such as the Islamic revival or the Arab Spring obscure the continued salience of religious and ethnic cleavages"-- "Sunni-Shia relations in the GCC countries are analysed by the contributors in the wake of recent protests in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere"--

Islamic sects --- Shīʻah --- Sunnites --- Political aspects --- Relations --- Sunnites. --- Shīʻah. --- Persian Gulf Region --- Ethnic relations. --- Shiites --- Islam --- Muslim sects --- Sects, Islamic --- Sects, Muslim --- Sects --- Islamic heresies

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Islamic sects --- Early works to 1800 --- -Islam --- Muslim sects --- Sects, Islamic --- Sects, Muslim --- Sects --- Islamic heresies --- -Early works to 1800 --- Islamic sects - Early works to 1800 --- Islamic sects. --- Sectes islamiques

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Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. Originating in the South-Yemeni region of Hadramawt, the Alawi tariqa mainly spread along the coast of the Indian Ocean. The Alawis are here portrayed as one of many cultural mediators in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious Indian Ocean world in the era of European colonialism.

Sufism --- Sufis --- Ulama --- Nosairians --- Islamic sects --- Soufisme --- Soufis --- Ulémas --- Nuṣayrīs --- Sectes islamiques --- History --- Biography --- Histoire --- Biographies --- Islam --- Muslim sects --- Sects, Islamic --- Sects, Muslim --- Sects --- Islamic heresies --- Alawis --- Alawites --- ʻAlawīyīn --- Alouite --- Ansarii --- Ansaris --- Nossarii --- Nusairis --- Nusayri-Alawis --- Nusayris --- Ethnology --- Shīʻah --- Ulema --- Muslim scholars --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- History. --- Functionaries