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Sunnites --- History --- Turkey --- Ottoman Empire --- Sunni Muslims --- Sunnis --- Islamic sects --- History. --- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

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Expectation of a redeemer is a widespread phenomenon across many civilisations. Classical Islamic traditions maintain that this redeemer will transform our world for the better in collaboration with Jesus, who will return as a Muslim and play a central role in this apocalyptic endeavour. While the messianic idea occupies a central place in Shi'i thought, there have also been numerous Sunni claimants throughout history - though they have received less scholarly attention. In this book, Yohanan Friedmann explores the roots of the messianic idea in Sunni Islam, and studies four major mahdi claimants - Ibn Tumart, Sayyid Muhammad Jawnpuri, Muhammad Ahmad and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad - who made a considerable impact in the region where they emerged.

Mahdi --- Sunnites --- Messianism --- 297.12 --- Sunni Muslims --- Sunnis --- Islamic sects --- Mahdism --- Panislamism --- Religion --- Nativistic movements --- 297.12 Islam: theologie; doctrine --- Islam: theologie; doctrine

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Religious communities --- Sunnites --- Shīʻah --- Sunni Muslims --- Sunnis --- History --- Iraq --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Shiah --- Religious communities. --- Shīʻah. --- Sunnites. --- To 1921. --- Imamites --- Shia --- Shiism --- Twelvers (Islam) --- Islamic sects --- Alids --- Communities --- Religious institutions --- Irak --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Histoire --- Shīʻah --- Civilization. --- Intellectual life. --- Iraq.

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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 Azhar University as the most important representative of Sunni Islam and its relations with Shiite scholars. Particular importance is attached to the interdependency of theological arguments and the political motivations of the interlocutors, and especially to the significance of Islamic ecumenism for Egyptian foreign policy in the 1950s. Although the main part of the study is confined to the time before 1979, in an epilogue the course of events is followed until most recent developments.

Islam --- Sunnites --- Shīʻah --- Relations --- Shīʻah. --- Sunnites. --- History --- Jāmiʻat al-Azhar. --- Shīʻah --- Sunni Muslims --- Sunnis --- Islamic sects --- Imamites --- Shia --- Shiism --- Twelvers (Islam) --- Alids --- Relations&delete& --- Jāmiʻat al-Azhar. --- Cairo. --- Azhar. --- Azhar University --- Al Azhar University --- Azhar-Universität --- جامعة الازهر --- Jāmiʻ al-Azhar --- Shiites --- Shīʻah. --- Islam - 20th century. --- Sunnites - Relations - Shīʻah. --- Shīʻah - Relations - Sunnites. --- Shīʻah - History - 20th century. --- Shiah --- Shiah. --- Jamiat al-Azhar.

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Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Owing largely to the threat of terrorism, political Islam is often portrayed as a monolithic movement embodying fundamentalism and theocracy, an image magnified by the rise of populism and xenophobia in the United States and Europe. Reality, however, is far more complicated. Political Islam has evolved considerably since its spectacular rise decades ago, and today it features divergent viewpoints and contributes to discrete but simultaneous developments worldwide. This is a new political Islam, more global in scope but increasingly local in action.Emmanuel Karagiannis offers a sophisticated analysis of the different manifestations of contemporary Islamism. In a context of global economic and social changes, he finds local manifestations of Islamism are becoming both more prevalent and more diverse. Many Islamists turn to activism, still more participate formally in the democratic process, and some, in far fewer numbers, advocate violence-a wide range of political persuasions and tactics that reflects real and perceived political, cultural, and identity differences.Synthesizing prodigious research and integrating insights from the globalization debate and the literature on social movements, The New Political Islam seeks to explain the processes and factors leading to distinctive fusions of "the global" and "the local" across the landscape of contemporary political Islam. Examining converts to Islam in Europe, nonviolent Islamists with global reach, Islamist parties in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia, and militant Shia and Sunni groups in Syria and Iraq, Karagiannis demonstrates that Islamists have embraced ideas and practices from the global marketplace and have attempted to implement them locally. He looks closely at the ways in which Islamist activists, politicians, and militants have utilized the language of human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and popular support and to contend for power.

Islam and politics --- Muslim converts --- Muslims --- Sunnites --- Shiites --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Human rights advocacy --- Democracy --- Justice --- Terrorism --- Advocacy, Human rights --- Social advocacy --- National human rights institutions --- Fundamentalism, Islamic --- Islamism --- Islam --- Religious fundamentalism --- Shia Muslims --- Shiah Muslims --- Shiahs --- Shias --- Shiite Muslims --- Sunni Muslims --- Sunnis --- Islamic sects --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Islamic converts --- Converts --- Politics and Islam --- Political science --- Islam and terrorism --- History --- Political activity --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Political aspects --- Political Science. --- Public Policy. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies.