Islamic Ecumenism In The 20th Century: The Azhar And Shiism Between Rapprochement And Restraint (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia)

Translator's Note......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: The Dispute About the "Correct" History......Page 13
I. First Attempts at Resolving the Conflict......Page 37
II. The Azhar Reform and Shiism at the Beginning of  the Twentieth Century......Page 57
III. A Controversial Correspondence (1911/36)......Page 63
The abolition of the caliphate......Page 94
Jerusalem 1931 and its aftermath......Page 100
The involvement of the Azhar......Page 115
Precursors......Page 133
Foundation and structure of the Jamā'at al-taqrīb......Page 141
Publishing and editorial activity......Page 155
VI. The Scholarly Network of the Taqrīb Movement (1947–1960)......Page 165
Sunnis......Page 167
Shiites......Page 199
On the uses and disadvantages of history for ecumenical thinking......Page 220
bi-llatī hiya ahsan? Standardized arguments and stereotypes......Page 240
The Azhar and the Revolution......Page 261
Muhibb al-Dīn al-Khatīb and the Azhar journal......Page 267
The integration of the taqrīb society into politics......Page 287
Theology and politics: Mahmūd Shaltūt's "fatwā" of 1959......Page 296
Politics and theology: Egypt Iraq and Iran 1958–1960......Page 317
The polemic reloaded......Page 332
X. From Rapprochement to Restraint (1962–1979)......Page 350
Epilogue: Continuing Rapprochement into the Twenty-first Century?......Page 388
Abbreviations......Page 411
Bibliography......Page 413
Index......Page 437