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1) Shi'ism
Series
Formation of the classical Islamic world volume Volume 33
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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 world religion. In these collected essays Arjomand has persistenly developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shi'ism, from its sectarian formation...
Author
Series
Islamic philosophy theology and science volume 72
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"This book is a historical and sociological reading of the relation between Sunnis and Shias from the inception of the dispute for Mohammed's succession until today. It is divided in two parts. The first part offers a comprehensive history of the divide. It shows how Shiism was, during much of the Middle Ages, the main contestation ideology of the caliphate, but also how Sunnism and Shiism converged as Shiism progressively ceased to be an esoteric...
Author
Series
Religion and society volume Volume 71
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English