Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam Arjomand Said Amir
Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam Arjomand Said Amir This study of messianism and revolution examines an extremely rich though unexplored historical record on the rise of…
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Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam Arjomand Said Amir
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. 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. Bringing the revolutions together in a comprehensive framework, Sad 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.
By bringing to light these linkages and
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