%0 Book %T Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: collected essays %A Arjomand, Saïd Amir %D 2016 %I Brill %C Leiden %@ 9789004312258 %G English %F 863576001 %O by Saïd Amir Arjomand %O Includes bibliographical references and index %O Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet SSG XA-DE-BW pdager DE-21 %X Introduction: Shi'ite Islam as a World Religion, its Social Forms, Bearers and Impact on Social Action -- Part 1. Formation of Shi'ite Islam as a World Religion of Salvation : Imamate, Occultation and Theodicy -- Origins and Development of Apocalyptic Messianism in Early Islam -- The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi'ism -- Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation -- The Consolation of Theology : Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism -- Shi'ite Theodicy : Martyrdom and the Meaning of Suffering -- Part 2. Shi'ite Religion and the Structure of Domination in Iran --- Hierocratic Authority in Shi'ism andnsition from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran -- Three Decrees of Shah Tahmasp on Clerical Authority and Public Law in Shi'ite Iran -- Political Ethic and Public Law in the First half of the Nineteenth Century -- Imam Khomeini and the Constitution of the Rule of God in Contemporary Iran -- Part 3. The Bearers of Shi'ite Islam and its Institutional Organization -- Hosayn b. Ruh al-Nawbakhti, the Third Emissary of the Hidden Imam --- The Clerical Estate and the Emergence of a Shi'ite Hierocracy in Safavid Iran -- The Office of Mulla-Bashi in Shi'ite Iran -- Shi'ite Jurists and Iran's Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century -- Part 4. Shi'ite Islam and the Motivation of Sociopolitical Action: Revolution and Constitution The Rise of Shah Esmail as a Mahdist Revolution -- Religious Extremism (Ghuluww), Sufism and Sunnism in Safavid Iran: 1501-1722 -- Ideological Revolution in Shi'ism -- Shi'ite Islam and the Revolution in Iran -- Shi'ite Conceptions of Authority and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Shi'ite Dissent in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution %L 306.6/9782 %K Shīʻah %K Iran %K Religion %K Islam %K Schiiten %K Islamisierung %K Politischer Islam %K Religionsgemeinschaft %K Staat %K Politische Entscheidung %K Geschichte %K Politische Soziologie %K Wissenschaftstheorie %K History %9 Text