Shīʿīs in Palestine

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).

“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

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesNote on Translations, Dates, and TransliterationIntroductionMedieval and Modern Palestine1 From Immigration to the Golden Age1 The First Shīʿīs in Palestine2 Palestine under Shīʿī Rule3 Giving Palestine a Shīʿī Identity: Tombs of the ahl al-bayt4 Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Shīʿīs of Tiberias and Acre5 The End of the “Shīʿī Century”2 The Disappearance of the Shīʿī Community in Palestine1 The Ayyūbid Restoration2 Mamlūk Oppression3 Persecutions3 The Shīʿīs in Galilee1 The Region of Safed2 The Matāwila in Northern Palestine3 Palestinian and Zionist Views on the Shīʿī Villages4 The Palestinian Fear of the Return of the Shīʿīs5 Remaining Shīʿī Sects4 Shīʿī Folklore and Religious Traditions about Palestine1 Shīʿism in Palestinian Folklore2 Shīʿī Traditions concerning Holy Towns in PalestineConclusionAppendix 1: The Ṭālibiyyūn in PalestineAppendix 2: Photos and Inscriptions of Shīʿī Shrines in PalestineAppendix 3: The Fatwā of Taqī l-Dīn Aḥmad b. Taymiyya concerning the Head of Ḥusayn in AshkelonAppendix 4: Israeli Documents: Hūnīn 1948—the Missed OpportunityAppendix 5: Interviews with Two Palestinian Shaykhs Who Converted to ShīʿismAppendix 6: A Shīʿī Supplication in the “Shīʿīs of Palestine” Facebook PageAppendix 7: Interview with a Member of the Dāwūdī BohrāsTimeline of Shīʿī History in PalestineGlossary of Shīʿī Terms in the Palestinian ContextBibliographyIndex