The shadow of God and the Hidden Imam : religion, political order, and societal change in Shi'ite Iran from the beginning to 1890 / Said Amir Arjomand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arjomand, Said Amir.

Series:

Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies ; no. 17.

Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies ; no. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--Politics and government.

Iran.

Politics and government.

Shīʻah--Iran--History.

Shīʻah.

History.

Islam and politics--Iran.

Islam and politics.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Shadow of god & the hidden imam

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1984]

Contents:

Sectarian Shi'ism within the Islamic body politic ; eighth/second to the thirteenth/seventh century

Millenarian religio-political movements in the fourteenth/eighth and fifteenth/ninth centuries

The shadow of God on earth : The ethos of Persian patrimonialism

Safavid religious policies and the establishment of twelver Shi'ism in Iran, 1501-1629

The "Clerical Notables" and the final emergence of a Shi'ite hierocracy in Iran

From sectarian Shi'ism to Shi'ism as a national religion

Two variants of Safavid Shi'ism and their respective political implications ; The political ethics of Safavid Shi'ism

Shi'ism, the patrimonial political ethos, and sociopolitical action

World-rejecting tendencies in the Shi'ite religion

The impact of Shi'ism on the Qājār and its limits

Religion and sociopolitical action in the Qājār polity

General conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.

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Local Notes:

CJS copy acc.# 00799

ISBN:

0226027821

9780226027821

0226027848

9780226027845

OCLC:

10324922