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Having reviewed some of the distinguishing events central to Shiite sacred history, it may be good for us to pause here and examine aspects of the Islamic faith adhered to by Shiite and Sunni Muslims alike. For although the historical events of the seventh century—Ali’s caliphate, Karbala, the imamate of Husain—generated a Shiite theology which differs from Sunnism in important ways, nevertheless the two traditions share in common numerous religious beliefs and essential insights concerning the nature of divinity and God’s relations with humanity.
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W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Philosophy and Theology (Edinburgh University Press, 1985), 25–27.
N. K. Sandars, trans., The Epic of Gilgamesh (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1964), 89.
T. Emil Homerin, “Echoes of a Thirsty Owl: Death and Afterlife in Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44 (1985), 167 and n. 10.
Ibid., 183.
Ibid., 182.
Tor Andrae, Mohammed: The Man and His Faith (New York: Harper & Row, 1960), 19.
Fazlur Rahman, Islam, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), 150, 153.
Moojan Momen, An Introduction to Shi’ i Islam (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 208–209.
Ibid., 116, 235.
Ibid., 116.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, trans., The Holy Qur’ an (Beirut: Dar al-Arabia, n.d.), 360 n. 1043.
For a discussion of The City of Brass see David Pinault, Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), 148–239.
Andrae, op. cit., 37–38; R. A. Nicholson, A Literary History of the Arabs (Cambridge University Press, 1977), 138; A. J. Wensinck, s.v. “Ka’ba,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978), vol. 4, p. 320.
Jalal al-Din Abd al-Rahman al-Suyuti and Jalal al-Din Muhammad al-Mahalli, Tafsir al-Jalalayn (Beirut: Dar al-ma’rifah, n.d.), 174.
Mahmoud Ayoub, Redemptive Suffering in Islam (The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1978), 73.
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Pinault, D. (1992). Essentials of Islam Common to the Shiite and Sunni Traditions. In: The Shiites. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06693-0_2
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