Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvSaid Amir Arjomand

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This study of messianism and revolution examines an extremely rich though unexplored historical record on the rise of Islam and its sociopolitical revolutions from Muhammad’s constitutive revolution in Arabia to the Abbasid revolution in the East and the Fatimid and Almohad revolutions in North Africa and the Maghreb. Bringing the revolutions together in a comprehensive framework, Saïd Amir Arjomand uses sociological theory as well as the critical tools of modern historiography to argue that a volatile but recurring combination of apocalyptic motivation and revolutionary action was a driving force of historical change time and again. In addition to tracing these threads throughout 500 years of history, Arjomand also establishes how messianic beliefs were rooted in the earlier Judaic and Manichaean notions of apocalyptic transformation of the world. By bringing to light these linkages and factors not found in the dominant sources, this text offers a sweeping account of the long arc of Islamic history.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-10-25
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt635 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor388
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520387584

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Emergence of Apocalyptic Messianism from the Maccabean Nativist Revolution2. Muhammad’s Constitutive Revolution and Its Apocalyptic Roots3. Civil Wars and the Emergence of Apocalyptic Mahdism4. The Self-Destruction of the Umayyad Empire5. The Process of the Hashemite Revolution6. The Integrative and Centralizing Consequences of the Abbasid Realized Mahdism7. Apocalyptic Messianism in the Fatimid Revolution8. The Almohad Revolution of Mahdi Ibn Tumart and the Berbers9. The Islamicate Conceptions of RevolutionConcluding RemarksAbbreviationsReferencesIndex

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