Sociology of Shi'ite Islam : collected essays / Said Amir Arjomand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arjomand, Said Amir.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shīʻah.

Iran--History.

Iran.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill. 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. In these collected essays Arjomand has persistenly developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shiʿism, 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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-476) and index.

ISBN:

90-04-32627-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004326279 DOI