Sociology of Shi'ite Islam : collected essays /

Sociology of Shi'ite Islam : collected essays /

Sociology of Shiʿite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shiʿism. 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 Shiʻism as a world religion. I...

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Main Author: Arjomand, Said Amir.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2016.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004325999.

Subjects:

Shīʻah.
Iran > History.
Iran.
History.

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Call Number: BP192 .A75 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Shiʿite Islam as a World Religion, Its Social Forms, Bearers and Impact on Social Action
  • Formation of Shiʿite Islam as a World Religion of Salvation: Imamate, Occultation and Theodicy
  • Origins and Development of Apocalypticism and Messianism in Early Islam: 610-750 CE
  • The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiʿism*
  • 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 Shiʿism*
  • Shiʿite Theodicy, Martyrdom and the Meaning of Suffering
  • Shiʿite Religion and the Structure of Domination in Iran
  • Hierocratic Authority in Shiʿism and the Transition from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran
  • Three Decrees of Shah Tahmāsp on Clerical Authority and Public Law in Shiʿite 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
  • The Bearers of Shiʿite 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 Shiʿite Hierocracy in Ṣafavid Iran*
  • The Office of Mulla-Bashi in Shiʿite Iran*
  • Shiʿite Jurists and Iran's Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century*
  • Shiʿite Islam and the Motivation of Sociopolitical Action: Revolution and Constitution
  • The Rise of Shah Esmāʿil as a Mahdist Revolution*
  • Religious Extremism (Ghuluw), Sufism and Sunnism in Safavid Iran: 1501-1722*
  • Ideological Revolution in Shiʿism*
  • Shiʿite Islam and the Revolution in Iran*
  • Shiʿite Conceptions of Authority and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran*
  • Shiʿite Dissent in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution*
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.