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The Shia Islam You've Heard About
Correcting the Record, Inside and Out
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36536939
EAN: 9798190032505
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Zustellung: Di, 06.10.2026
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Beschreibung
What if much of what you have heard about Shia Islam came from sources that never asked Shia Muslims what they actually believed. They have a different Qur'an. They worship Ali. They insult the Prophet's Companions. They are permitted to lie through taqiyya. Temporary marriage is legalized prostitution. Ashura is defined by bloodletting. Shia Islam is simply an Iranian political ideology. These claims have circulated for centuries. Some are plainly false. Some begin with something real and distort it beyond recognition. Some take the beliefs or actions of a minority and attribute them to millions. And some are not misconceptions at all, but genuine theological disagreements that deserve to be stated honestly. The Shia Islam You've Heard About. examines these claims without defensiveness, denial or sectarian point-scoring. Dr Saiyed Ali Al-Razavi traces how popular ideas about Shia Islam were shaped by classical polemical literature, imperial rivalries, colonial classifications, political conflict, satellite television, mistranslation and the modern attention economy. He then tests the most persistent accusations against Shia Islam using the tradition's own authoritative sources. But this is not simply a defence of Shia Muslims. The same standard is turned inward. The book confronts unreliable stories repeated from the pulpit, cultural customs presented as religious law, exaggerated claims about the Imams, hostile caricatures of Sunni Islam, sectarian language and practices that Shia scholars themselves have long criticised. Every claim about Shia Islam is assessed through Shia sources. Every description of Sunni belief is drawn from Sunni authorities. Where the evidence supports a correction, the correction is made clearly. Where criticism has some foundation, that foundation is acknowledged. Where a real disagreement remains, it is not softened into an artificial unity. Inside, you will discover:. - Why Shia and Sunni Muslims use the same Qur'an- What Shia Muslims actually believe about Imam Ali and the Twelve Imams- How Shia scholarship assesses the Prophet's Companions- Why Shia Muslims pray differently and prostrate on a turbah- What mut'ah and taqiyya mean within Shia law- How Shia Islam became wrongly equated with Iran and Persian identity- What Ashura commemorations represent beyond their most sensational images- Which beliefs genuinely divide Sunni and Shia Islam- How both communities misrepresent one another- How to distinguish scholarship from polemic, evidence from repetition, and disagreement from distortion. Written by a Twelver Shia author who refuses both the wounded tone of apologetics and the easy comfort of sectarian certainty, this book offers something rare: a defence willing to concede, an internal critique grounded in the tradition itself, and an account of Sunni-Shia disagreement that neither inflames nor erases it. The Shia Islam You've Heard About is for Shia Muslims who want a more accurate understanding of their own tradition, Sunni Muslims who want to examine what they have been told, and readers of every background who believe that religious communities should be understood through evidence rather than inherited accusation. Somewhere in this book is a sentence that may challenge you. The question is not whether it confirms what you already believe. The question is whether the source holds.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Saiyed Ali Al-Razavi
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 198