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Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World [Course Book ed.] 9781400841462
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
A Note on Transliteration
A Shi‘i-Led Reformation
Chapter 1. The Burden of the Past
Chapter 2. Containment Politics in the Persian Gulf
Chapter 3. The Struggle for Power in Iraq
Chapter 4. The Revival of Shi‘ism in Lebanon
Chapter 5. Between Aspirations and Reality
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
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Reaching for Power
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Yitzhak Nakash
Reaching for Power The Shi‘a in the Modern Arab World
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD
Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nakash, Yitzhak. Reaching for power : the shi‘a in the modern Arab world / Yitzhak Nakash. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12529-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-691-12529-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Shiites—Middle East. 2. Islam and politics—Middle East. I. Titl
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Chapter Seven
Shia Ithna ‘Ashariyyah and the Beliefs of the Saba’iyyah
We spoke in detail about the Saba’iyyahand their chief ‘Abdullah ibn Saba’ previously. We are forced to repeat their mention as well as the ideologies they held and the beliefs they spread among people which were firmly opposed, refuted, and contended with all force and might by ‘Aliradiya Llahu ‘anhu and his pure offspring—may Allah’s pleasure be upon them. Despite this, these crept into the minds of those who claimed to be their partisans and associates in the name of love for the Ahlul Bayt, whereas the Ahlul Baytare exonerated and absolved of them.
We are coerced to repeat it to confirm and determine that the Shia—especially the Ithna ‘Ashariyyah who consider themselves balanced and deceive many unwary people—are nothing but the heirs of this sect [the Saba’iyyah] who were misguided and led others astray. Nothing is found in their possession besides the estate which the Saba’iyyahleft to cause disunity and division among the Muslims and to distance people from authentic, sound beliefs which were revealed from the sky and brought by Jibril and conveyed by Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, the Book of Allah (the Qur’an), and the establi
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Shia Islam
Second-largest stem of Islam
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