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Sociology of Shi'ite Islam : collected essays /

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 wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arjomand, Said Amir (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.