Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects

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Syracuse University Press, 1. feb. 1988 - 606 sider
Little is known in the West about the division of the Islamic world into Shiites and Sunnites and even less about the stratification of these two groups, with most of the attention going to the Sunnites. Moosa's comprehensive study of the origins and cultural aspects of the different extremist, or Ghulat, Shiite sects in the Middle East is a ground-breaking work. These sects whose 'extremism' is essentially religious are generally a peaceful people and, except for the Nusayris of Syria, are not political activists.
 

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The Shabak
1
24
7
The Bektashis
10
The Safawis and Kizilbash
21
The Bektashis the Kizilbash and the Shabak
36
The Ghulats Trinity
50
The Miraculous Attributes of Ali
66
The Family of the Prophet
77
The Role of Ali
245
Ancient Period
255
Middle Period
267
Under the French Mandate
280
Rise to Political Power
292
28
298
Ali Muhammad and Salman
342
32
362

Religious Hierarchy
88
The Twelve Imams
92
The Abdal
110
Rituals and Ceremonies
120
Social Customs
144
Religious Books
152
The Bajwan and Ibrahimiyya
163
The SarliyyaKakaiyya
168
Origin and Identity
185
Cosmology and Cosmogony
194
Founder of the AhliHaqq
214
The Cult of Dawud
224
The Jam
231
33
370
34
382
35
392
The Nusayri Mass
398
36
409
37
416
38
426
Armenian Elements in the Beliefs of the Kizilbash Kurds
432
Notes
449
Bibliography
468
Index
565
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Matti Moosa was a professor of history and comparative religions at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is also the author of Maronites in History.

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