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In The Shīʿīs in Palestine Yaron Friedman offers a survey of the presence of Shīʿism in the region of Palestine (today: Israel) from early Islamic history until the contemporary period. It brings to light many pieces of information and interesting developments that are not widely known, in addition to the general point that, contrary to common belief, the Shīʿī community has played a significant role in the history of Palestine. The volume includes a study of Shīʿī shrines in Palestine, as well as showing the importance of these Muslim sites and holy towns in Palestine in the Shīʿī religion.

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“This volume is a welcome contribution to the study of two still relatively neglected areas of scholarship: Shiʿism and the history of Palestine. The detail is so rich that the reader is left almost wishing the book were longer. It can only be hoped that others will use this work as a starting point for many more studies related to the Shiʿi’s in Palestine.” Fuchsia Hart, University of Oxford, inJournal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies 11 (2018): 117-120 ""The Shīʿīs in Palestine broadens the historical study of Shīʿism and Shīʿī Muslim communities in the Middle East and the Levant, much of which has focused on the large Shīʿī communities in modern-day southern Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. Friedman draws upon a wide collection of Muslim historical and theological writings, including materials produced by Ibn ʿArabī, al-Ghazālī and Ibn Taymīyya. In addition to adding to the historiographical literature, the book also serves as a useful addition to the ethnographic literature on Islamic art and architecture and Palestinian folklore. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Islamic studies, Middle Eastern history, Palestinian studies and Shīʿī studies."" Christopher Anzalone, Marine Corps University and George Mason University, in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2080440

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Yaron Friedman, Ph.D. (Sorbonne, 2006), is lecturer and Arabic instructor at the University of Haifa. He published The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria (Brill, 2010). He has also published articles in Studia Islamica, Der Islam, Le Museon and entries in the Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition).

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