Sociology of Shi'ite Islam : collected essays / by Said Amir Arjomand.
Arjomand, Said Amir, author.
2016
BP192 .A75 2016
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Title
Sociology of Shi'ite Islam : collected essays / by Said Amir Arjomand.
Author
Arjomand, Said Amir, author.
ISBN
9789004312258 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004312258
9789004326279 (e-book)
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (498 pages)
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BP192 .A75 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.6/9782
Summary
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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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.

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