A CONCISE HISTORY OF SUNNIS AND SHI’IS
Book ID/图书代码： 11908518C00011
English Summary/英文概要： The 1400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi’is has rarely been as toxic as it is today, feeding wars and communal strife in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and many other countries, with tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran escalating.
In this richly layered and engrossing account, John McHugo reveals how this great divide occurred. Charting the story of Islam from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day, he describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi’ism evolved as different sects during the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the empires of the Sunni Ottomans and Shi’i Safavids contrived to ensure that the split would continue into modern times. Now its full, destructive force has been brought out by the struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran for the soul of the Muslim world.
Definitive and insightful, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi’is shows that there was nothing inevitable about the sectarian conflicts that now disfigure Islam. It is an essential guide to understanding the genesis, development and manipulation of the great schism that has come to define Islam and the Muslim world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 逊尼派和什叶派之间长达1400年的分裂很少像今天这样严重，导致了叙利亚、伊拉克、也门、巴基斯坦、阿富汗和许多其他国家的战争和社区冲突，沙特阿拉伯和伊朗之间的紧张关系不断升级。
本书的叙述层次丰富、引人入胜，作者John McHugo揭示了这一巨大的鸿沟是如何产生的。书中描绘了伊斯兰教的故事，描述了在继承先知的过程中激烈的冲突，在阿拔斯王朝时期，逊尼派和什叶派是如何演变成不同的教派的，以及逊尼派奥斯曼帝国和什叶派萨法维王朝之间的竞争如何导致了如今的分裂状态。如今，沙特阿拉伯和伊朗之间为争夺穆斯林世界的“灵魂”而进行斗争……
《逊尼派与什叶派简史》颇具洞察力，展示了当今瓦解伊斯兰教的宗派冲突没有什么是不可避免的。本书对于理解伊斯兰和穆斯林世界巨大分裂的起源、发展和操纵，具有十分重要的意义（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“《逊尼派与什叶派简史》是一本重要的著作……不仅以浅显易懂的方式为读者提供其想要的历史背景，同时也运用这些可靠的知识，对现代中东进行了清晰的评估。”——《泰晤士报文学副刊》
“本书清晰易懂，作者John McHugo表明，逊尼派与什叶派的分裂并非不可避免。”——Madawi Al-Rasheed
“John McHugo带领读者探讨了1400多年伊斯兰历史中逊尼派和什叶派的分裂，在平衡各种叙述方面体现出出色的判断力，叙述非常清晰。”——Moojan Momen
’A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi’is is an important corrective … provides the reader not just with all the historical background he or she could want, in an accessible and comprehensible fashion, but also employs this sound knowledge to a clear-headed appraisal of the modern Middle East.’ Times Literary Supplement
’In lucid and accessible prose, John McHugo shows that there is nothing inevitable about the Sunni-Shi’i divide.’ -- Madawi Al-Rasheed, author of A History of Saudi Arabia
’John McHugo takes us through the Sunni-Shi’i divide over 1400 years of Islamic history with good judgement in balancing the various accounts, and a great clarity of expression.’ --Moojan Momen, author of Shi’i Islam: A Beginner’s Guide
About the Author/作者介绍： John McHugo曾在20世纪70年代初在牛津大学和开罗的美国大学攻读阿拉伯和伊斯兰研究，毕业后，他成了一名国际律师，由于工作需要，经常出差，去过包括埃及、阿曼和巴林等在内的许多阿拉伯国家。他现任圣安德鲁斯叙利亚研究中心高级荣誉研究员，此外，还担任其他机构的理事会成员。他还写就阿拉伯-以色列争端撰写了法律方面的文章，并在出任自由民主党领袖时就巴勒斯坦问题向Tim Farron提供了建议。他的著作还包括广受好评的《阿拉伯与叙利亚简史：近代史》。www.johnmchugo.com
After studying Arabic and Islamic studies at Oxford University and the American University in Cairo in the early 1970s, John McHugo’s career as an international lawyer took him to a number of Arab countries including Egypt, Oman and Bahrain over a period of more than a quarter of a century. He is an honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at St Andrews, and a board member of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) and the British Egyptian Society. He has also written on legal aspects of the Arab-Israeli dispute and advised Tim Farron, when he was leader of the Liberal Democrats, on Palestinian issues. His other publications include the critically acclaimed A Concise History of the Arabs and Syria: A Recent History. www.johnmchugo.com
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