Islamic ecumenism in the 20th century : : the Azhar and Shiism between rapprochement and restraint / / Rainer Brunner.

• Superior document: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 91
• VerfasserIn: Brunner, Rainer,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 91.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 435 pages)

The present volume describes the various phases of the inner-Islamic ecumenical dialogue in the 20th century between Sunnis and Shiites, the short-lived periods of success it achieved, but also the fierce mutual polemics it inevitably engendered. The examination focuses on the role of the Cairene Az...

Table of Contents

• Translator's Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Dispute About the ""Correct"" History; I. First Attempts at Resolving the Conflict; II. The Azhar Reform and Shiism at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; III. A Controversial Correspondence (1911/36); IV. Caliphate and Ecumene (1924-1939); V. The Institutionalisation of Ecumenical Thinking; VI. The Scholarly Network of the Taqrib Movement (1947-1960); VII. Scope and Limits of the Ecumenical Debate; VIII. Polemics, Rapprochement and Revolutionary Politics (1952-1957); IX. Triumph and Failure of Ecumenical Thinking (1958-1961); X. From Rapprochement to Restraint (1962-1979); Epilogue: Continuing Rapprochement into the Twenty-first Century?; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index