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Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Shiʿite Islam as a World Religion, Its Social Forms, Bearers and Impact on Social Action -- Part 1 Formation of Shiʿite Islam as a World Religion of Salvation: Imamate, Occultation and Theodicy -- Chapter 1 Origins and Development of Apocalypticism and Messianism in Early Islam: 610-750 CE -- Chapter 2 The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiʿism -- Authority and Organization in the Imami Sect during the Period of Revolutionary Chiliasm: 744-418 -- The Crisis of the Imamate, the Expansion of Shiʿism, and the Emergence of the Ulema: 818-74 -- Hierocratic Authority after the Cessation of the Historical Imamate and the Dominance of the Nawbakhtis: 874-941 -- Conclusion: The Crisis of Hierocratic Authority and the Declaration of the Complete Occultation -- Chapter 3 Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation -- Chapter 4 The Consolation of Theology: Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shiʿism -- The Historical Background -- Theology: Hidden God, Sealed Prophecy, and the Hidden Imam -- Theodicy: The Hidden Imam and the Law -- Rationalization and the Transformation of Shiʿite Islam -- Chapter 5 Shiʿite Theodicy, Martyrdom and the Meaningof Suffering -- Part 2 Shiʿite Religion and the Structure of Domination in Iran -- Chapter 6 Hierocratic Authority in Shiʿism and the Transition from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran -- Chapter 7 Three Decrees of Shah Tahmāsp on Clerical Authority and Public Law in Shiʿite Iran -- The Decree Concerning Shaykh ʿAli al-Karaki -- Prohibition of Forbidden Practices (manāhi) -- The Ordinance of Shāh Tahmāsp on the Law of Sovereignty (qānun-e saltanat) -- Chapter 8 Political Ethic and Public Law in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
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The Safavid Background and the Recovery of Political Philosophy -- Mirrors for Princes and Political Philosophy -- Developments in Jurisprudence in Relation to Judiciary Organization -- Emergence of Critical Political Writings -- Chapter 9 Imam Khomeini and the Constitution of the Rule of God in Contemporary Iran -- Part 3 The Bearers of Shiʿite Islam and Its Institutional Organization -- Chapter 10 Hosayn B. Ruh Al-Nawbakhti, the Third Emissary of the Hidden Imam -- Chapter 11 The Clerical Estate and the Emergence of a Shiʿite Hierocracy in Ṣafavid Iran -- Institutional Bases and Culture of the 'Clerical Estate' -- Geographical Background and Culture of the Imāmi Hierocracy -- The Struggle for Hierocratic Domination -- Sociological Properties of Gnostic and Orthodox Shiʿism asDeterminants of the Final Consolidation of the Shiʿite Hierocracy -- Chapter 12 The Office of Mulla-Bashi in Shiʿite Iran -- Chapter 13 Shiʿite Jurists and Iran's Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century -- The Emergence of Shiʿite Constitutionalism -- Law Professors and Shiʿite Jurists in the Modernization of Iran's Legal System -- The Revolution of 1979 and the New Islamic Constitutional Monarchy -- Judiciary Reconstruction and Destruction of the Legal Profession -- Conclusion -- Part 4 Shiʿite Islam and the Motivation of Sociopolitical Action: Revolution and Constitution -- Chapter 14 The Rise of Shah Esmāʿil as a Mahdist Revolution -- The Safavid Movement and Shah Esmāʿil's Mahdist Claim -- Revolutionary Mobilization and Victory -- The Safavid Revolution and the ancien régimes -- Failure of the Export of Revolution to the Ottoman Empire -- Periodization of the Safavid Revolution -- Consequences of the Safavid Revolution -- Chapter 15 Religious Extremism (Ghuluw), Ṣūfism andSunnism in Safavid Iran: 1501-1722 -- Suppression of Millenarian "Extremism
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Suppression of Ṣūfism -- Decline of Sunnism -- Chapter 16 Ideological Revolution in Shiʿism -- The Constitutional Revolution of 1906-11 and Its Impact -- Clerical Publicists in the Pahlavī Era -- The Islamic Revolution of 1979 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 17 Shiʿite Islam and the Revolution in Iran -- The Nation and the State -- The Clergy -- Significance of Khomeini -- The Dilemma of Religious Reform -- Precariousness of the Clerical Regime -- Chapter 18 Shiʿite Conceptions of Authority and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Khomeinī's Theory of Theocratic Government and the IslamicRevolution -- The Constitutional Crisis of the 1980s and Khomeinī's SecondRevolution -- Constitutional Amendments of 1989 and the Conciliar ClericalRule after Khomeinī -- Constitutional Politics of Iran under President Khātamī -- Conclusion -- Chapter 19 Shiʿite Dissent in Iran before and after theIslamic Revolution -- Moral Outrage, Nativism and Refuge in Ideology -- Reformation of Islam, Modernity and Pluralism -- The Political Impact of the Reform Movement and Democratization -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004312258
Additional Edition:
Arjomand, Saïd Amir, 1946 - Sociology of Shi'ite Islam Leiden : Brill, 2016 ISBN 9789004312258
Additional Edition:
Print version Arjomand, Saïd Amir Sociology of ShiʿIte Islam : Collected Essays Leiden : BRILL,c2016 ISBN 9789004312258
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English
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Theology
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