@article{961067,
      recid = {961067},
      author = {Arjomand, Said Amir,},
      title = {Sociology of Shi'ite Islam : collected essays /},
      pages = {1 online resource (498 pages)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/961067},
}