Sociology of Shi'ite Islam
collected essays
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Word Count
121,500 words, Guess
Page Count
486 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-109004312250
- ISBN-109004380477
- ISBN-139789004312258
- ISBN-139789004326279
- ISBN-139789004380479
and 6 more
- ISBN-109004326278
- Library of Congress Control Number2016026980
- OCLC Control Number950430623
- Better World Books9789004312258
- Better World Books9789004380479
- Open LibraryOL28412746M
Classifications
- DDC306.6/9782
- LCCBP192 .A75 2016
- LCCBP192.A75 2016
Description
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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