Authority and political culture in Shi'ism / edited by Said Amir Arjomand. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arjomand, Said Amir.

Series:

SUNY series in Near Eastern studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shīʻah--Government.

Shīʻah.

Shīʻah--Doctrines.

Islam and state.

Islam and state--Iran.

Iran--Politics and government.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 393 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1988.

Contents:

Shiʻism, authority, and political culture / Said Amir Arjomand

Imam and community in the pre-Ghayba period / Etan Kohlberg

The evolution of popular eulogy of the Imams among the Shiʻa / Mohammad-Djaʻfar Mahdjoub ; translated and adapted by John R. Perry

The Mujtahid of the age and the Mullā-bāshī: an intermediate stage in the institutionalization of religious authority in Shiʻite Iran / Said Amir Arjomand

In between the Madrasa and the marketplace: the designation of clerical leadership in modern Shiʻism / Abbas Amanat

Constitutionalism and clerical authority / Abdol Karim Lahidji

Sharīʻat Sangalajī: a reformist theologian of the Riḍā Shāh period / Yann Richard ; translated by Kathryn Arjomand

Ideological revolution in Shiʻism / Said Amir Arjomand.

An annotated bibliography on government and statecraft / Mohammad-Taqi Danishpazhouh ; translated and adapted by Andrew Newman

ʻAllāma al-Ḥillī on the Imamate and Ijtihād / translated and edited by John Cooper

Two decrees of Shāh Ṭahmāsp concerning statecraft and the authority of Shaykh ʻAlī al-Karakī / translated and edited by Said Amir Arjomand

The Muqaddas al-Ardabīlī on Taqlīd / translated and edited by John Cooper

Two seventeenth-century Persian tracts on kingship and rulers / translated and edited by William C. Chittick

Lives of prominent nineteenth-century 'Ulamā' from Tunikā-bunī's Qiṣaṣ al-'Ulamā' / translated and edited by Hamid Dabashi

An exchange between a Mujtahid and a Qājār official / translated by Hamid Dabashi

Two clerical tracts on constitutionalism / translated and edited by Hamid Dabashi

Clerical authority in the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-9523-X

0-585-08698-2