Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam
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Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam

  1. 388 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Subvention
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The Emergence of Apocalyptic Messianism from the Maccabean Nativist Revolution
  10. 2. Muhammad’s Constitutive Revolution and Its Apocalyptic Roots
  11. 3. Civil Wars and the Emergence of Apocalyptic Mahdism
  12. 4. The Self-Destruction of the Umayyad Empire
  13. 5. The Process of the Hashemite Revolution
  14. 6. The Integrative and Centralizing Consequences of the Abbasid Realized Mahdism
  15. 7. Apocalyptic Messianism in the Fatimid Revolution
  16. 8. The Almohad Revolution of Mahdi Ibn Tumart and the Berbers
  17. 9. The Islamicate Conceptions of Revolution
  18. Concluding Remarks
  19. Abbreviations
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Index