An edition of Sociology of Shi'ite Islam (2016)

Sociology of Shi'ite Islam

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Said Amir Arjomand, Said Amir ...
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An edition of Sociology of Shi'ite Islam (2016)

Sociology of Shi'ite Islam

collected essays

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Sociology of Shi'ite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shi'ism. Its bearers first emerged as a sectarian elite, then a hierocracy and finally a theocracy. Imamate, Occultation and the theodicy of martyrdom are identified as the main components of the Shi'ism as a world religion. In these collected essays Arjomand has persistenly developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shi'ism, from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through the establishment of the Safavid empire in the sixteenth century, to the Islamic revolution in Iran in the twentieth century. These studies highlight revolutionary impulses embedded in the belief in the advent of the hidden Imam, and the impact of Shiʻite political ethics on the authority structure of pre-modern Iran and the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
486

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Subjects

Schiiten, Shīʻah, History, Islamic sociology

Places

Iran
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Shi'ite Islam as a World Religion, its Social Forms, Bearers and Impact on Social Action
Part 1. Formation of Shi'ite Islam as a World Religion of Salvation : Imamate, Occultation and Theodicy
Origins and Development of Apocalyptic Messianism in Early Islam
The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi'ism
Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation
The Consolation of Theology : Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism
Shi'ite Theodicy : Martyrdom and the Meaning of Suffering
Part 2. Shi'ite Religion and the Structure of Domination in Iran
Hierocratic Authority in Shi'ism and the Transition from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran
Three Decrees of Shah Tahmasp on Clerical Authority and Public Law in Shi'ite Iran
Political Ethic and Public Law in the First half of the Nineteenth Century
Imam Khomeini and the Constitution of the Rule of God in Contemporary Iran
Part 3. The Bearers of Shi'ite Islam and its Institutional Organization
Hosayn b. Ruh al-Nawbakhti, the Third Emissary of the Hidden Imam
The Clerical Estate and the Emergence of a Shi'ite Hierocracy in Safavid Iran
The Office of Mulla-Bashi in Shi'ite Iran
Shi'ite Jurists and Iran's Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century
Part 4. Shi'ite Islam and the Motivation of Sociopolitical Action: Revolution and Constitution The Rise of Shah Esmail as a Mahdist Revolution
Religious Extremism (Ghuluww), Sufism and Sunnism in Safavid Iran: 1501-1722
Ideological Revolution in Shi'ism
Shi'ite Islam and the Revolution in Iran
Shi'ite Conceptions of Authority and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Shi'ite Dissent in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leiden, Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.6/9782
Library of Congress
BP192 .A75 2016, BP192.A75 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 486 pages
Number of pages
486

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28412746M
ISBN 10
9004312250, 9004380477
ISBN 13
9789004312258, 9789004326279, 9789004380479
LCCN
2016026980
OCLC/WorldCat
950430623

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