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Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: collected essays

Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: collected essays
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ISBN 9789004312258 (hbk.)
9004312258 (hbk.)
Author Arjomand, Said Amir
Title Sociology of Shi'ite Islam : collected essays / by Said Amir Arjomand
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
Physical desc. xi, 486 p. ; 25 cm
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 (ghuluw), 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.
Subject Shīʻah
Shīʻah -- Iran
Iran -- History
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