Mahdism in the Sunni Arab World Today

Author(s):
Furnish, T.
Published
1999
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Among scholars of Islam and some Muslims today, a curious misperception dominates: that only the Shica believe in the coming the awaited Mahdi. Sunni Arab views of the Mahdi since the Six Days War of 1967 have reached heretofore unplumbed depths of eschatological belief and the vigorous debate among the Arab intelligentsia concerning these beliefs, as well as the degree to which they impact the Muslim social and political realms, have followed suit.

Sunni Arab World
Date issued
1999
Language
English
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden
Is part of
ISIM Newsletter (1999), Vol. 4, no. 1, p. 22-22
hdl
1887/17339