The Twelver Shia in Modern Times Religious Culture & Political History

Rainer Brunner, Ph.D. (1996) in Islamic Studies, University of Freiburg, is Assistant Professor there. He has worked on Shiite exegesis of the Qur'an and Sunnite-Shiite relations in the 20th century, including Annäherung und Distanz. Schia, Azhar und die islamische Ökumene im 20. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1996).
Werner Ende, Ph.D. (1965) in Islamic Studies, University of Hamburg, is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Freiburg. He is co-editor of Die Welt des Islams (Brill) and has published extensively on modern Arab historiography, the Salafiyya, the Twelver Shia and related subjects.