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• v. 1. Commentaire
• v. 2. Entretiens.

• 1. Radd va intiqād
• 2. Nuqṭah-i ittikāʼ-i Shīʻah
• 3. Ḥijāb va pardah dārī
• 4. Iḥtīyāj-i bashar bih payghambar va imām.

• 1. رد و انتقاد
• 2. نقطه اتکاء شىعه
• 3. حجاب و پرده دارى
• 4. احتياج بشر به پىغمبر و امام.

• Acknowledgments. Maps: 1. Safavid Persia, 1501-1722
• 2. Jabal 'Amil (South Lebanon)in the Modern Period. Introduction. 1. Sufi Regalia and Legal Banners: The Safavids and the Emigre Arab Jurists
• The Sovereign and Religious 'Authenticity'
• Domestic Contests: The Persian Aristocracy, the Qizilbash and the 'Amili Jurists
• 'Inventing' Shi'ism: Al-Karaki (d. 940 AH/1533 CE)as a Court Jurist
• Friday Prayer: Tailoring Shi'ism to Statehood
• From Marginality to Privilege
• 'Orthodoxy': Ostracizing Sufis and Storytellers
• Instruments of Conversion: Public Cursing
• Translating and Transporting the Word of Law
• Afterthoughts. 2. The Mujtahids Navigate the Sovereign's World: Husayn b.'Abd al-Samad (d. 984 AH/1576 CE)at the Court of Shah Tahmasb in Qazvin
• Aims of a Polemic
• Supreme and False Mujtahids
• To Remedy the Shah from Mania: Ritual Purity and Friday Prayer
• Conversion and Consent in Herat
• 'Normalizing' Sunnism??
• The Cleric Against the King
• Replacing the King
• Afterthoughts
• Summary and Conclusions. 3. Shah 'Abbas and Imperial Reign as Clerical Discipline, 1587-1629 CE: The 'Knighted' Jurists and the Restructuring of the State
• To Benefit the Learned and the Lay: Shi'ite Books under Shah 'Abbas
• Afflicted by the Company of Kings: 'The Baha'i is who I am, and
• great is my worth!'
• Imperial Uses of Clerical Shi'ism
• Navigating Clerical Dissent
• Mir Damad (d. 1041 AH/1631-2 CE): The Cleric as Philosopher
• The Making of the World Inside and Outside Time
• Human Freedom, Certitude and the Shari'a
• Shah 'Abbas and the Muslim-Christian Polemics of Ahmad 'Alavi
• Lutfullah al-Maysi (d. 1032 AH/1622-3 CE)in Isfahan
• Mistrust of Shah 'Abbas: Lutfullah's Mosque and the Guildsmen of the Old Meydan
• Summary and Conclusions. 4. Safavid Mistrust, Popular Protest and the Rationalists' Retreat: Social Forces from Below
• Once Upon a Time, an 'Amili
• The Clerics' Resources
• The New Ornament in the Crown: Khalifa Sultan
• The Penniless 'Amili Pilgrim and the Glory that Was
• New Contenders in the Vizierate Ranks
• Akhbarism: the Challenge to Interpretive Rationalism
• When Perfectly Able Arabs Fall Prey to Akhbarism
• Dissent and the Politics of Friday Prayer
• The Malaise of the Healer: Jurists on the Defensive
• The Sufis Within and the 'Essential' Arabic
• Conclusion. 5. The Rediscovery of Traditions and the Shifting Normative: Instability and Social Disorder
• An Imperial Command on Friday Prayer
• Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, the Rationalist-Traditionist Court Cleric
• Imamhood and Eschatology in Lieu of a De-empowered State
• At a Cushion's Distance From the Shah: Muhammad Al-Hurr al-'Amili (d. 1104 AH/1692 CE
• On Public Reference to the Mahdi
• On Tobacco
• The Duel Over Political Custody: Jurists and Sufis
• Summary and Conclusions
• Conclusion. Appendices: I. The 'Amili 'Ulama of Safavid Iran, 1501-1736 CE
• II. Posts and Activities of the Emigre 'Amili 'Ulama
• III. The Intellectual Production of the Emigre 'Amili 'Ulama. Notes
• Bibliography
• Index .
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'Converting Persia' explains how Iran was to acquire one of its defining characteristics: its Shi'ism. Under the Safavids (1501-1736 CE), Persia adopted Shi'ism as its official religion. Rula Abisaab explains how and why this specific brand of Shi'ism - urban and legally-based - was brought to the region by leading Arab 'Ulama from Ottoman Syria, and changed the face of the region till this day. These emigre scholars furnished distinct sources of legitimacy for the Safavid monarchs, and an ideological defense against the Ottomans. Just as important at the time was a conscious and vivid process of Persianization both at the state level and in society. Converting Persia is vital reading for anthropologists, historians and scholars of religion, and any interested in Safavid Persia, in Shi'ism, and in the wider history of the Middle East."Rula Abisaab has provided us with a remarkable study of Safavid Iran. Her work throws new light on the interplay of religion and society and will be a crucial work for all interested in the making of modern Iran." -Abbas Amanat, Professor of History, Yale University.
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• Abbreviations Introduction: Shi'ite Islam as a World Religion, its Social Forms, Bearers and Impact on Social Action Part I: Formation of Shi'ite Islam as a World Religion of Salvation: Imamate, Occultation and Theodicy
• Chapter 1: Origins and Development of Apocalyptic Messianism in Early Islam
• Chapter 2: Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi`ism
• Chapter 3: Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation
• Chapter 4: The Shi'ite Doctrine of Occultation and the Transition from Chiliasm to Law
• Chapter 5: Shi'ite Theodicy: Martyrdom and the Meaning of Suffering Part II: Shi'ite Religion and the Structure of Domination in Iran
• Chapter 6: Hierocratic Authority in Shi'ism and the Transition from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran
• Chapter 7: Three Decrees of Shah Tahmasp on Clerical Authority and Public Law in Shi'ite Iran
• Chapter 8: Political Ethic and Public Law in the First half of the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 9: Imam Khomeini and the Constitution of the Rule of God in Contemporary Iran Part III: The Bearers of Shi'ite Islam and its Institutional Organization
• Chapter 10. Hosayn b. Ruh al-Nawbakhti: the Third Emissary of the Hidden Imam
• Chapter 11. The Clerical Estate and the Rise of a Shi'ite Hierocracy in Safavid Iran
• Chapter 12: The Office of Mulla-Bashi in Shi'ite Iran
• Chapter 13: Shi'ite Jurists and Iran's Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century Part IV: Shi'ite Islam and the Motivation of Sociopolitical Action: Revolution and Constitution
• Chapter 14: The Rise of Shah Esma'il as a Mahdist Revolution
• Chapter 15: The Conversion of Iran to Twelver Shi'ite by the Safavid State: 1501-1722
• Chapter 16: Ideological Revolution in Shi'ism
• Chapter 17: Shi'ite Islam and the Islamic Revolution in Iran
• Chapter 18: Shi'ite Conceptions of Authority and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Chapter 19. Shi'ite Dissent in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution Bibliography Index.
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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 in the eighth century through the establishment of the Safavid empire in the sixteenth century, to the Islamic revolution in Iran in the twentieth century. These studies highlight revolutionary impulses embedded in the belief in the advent of the hidden Imam, and the impact of Shi'ite political ethics on the authority structure of pre-modern Iran and the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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• Introduction Part I: Metaphor and Identity
• 1. The Discursive Personality
• 2. Stuck in the Middle with You
• 3. A Double Edged Sword Part II: Anxiety and Discourse
• 4. Theology and Duality
• 5. Mediated Deliverance Part III: Faith
• 6. Wheel within a Wheel
• 7. Faith as Core and Structure
• 8. Silence Fraught with Meaning. Conclusion.
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Taking a theologically oriented method for engaging with historical and cultural phenomena, this book explores the challenge, offered by revolutionary Shi'i theology in Iran, to Western conventions on theology, revolution and religion's role in the creation of identity. Offering a stringent critique of current literature on political Islam and on Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, the author suggests that current literature fails to perceive and engage with the revolution and its thought as religious phenomena. Grounded in the experience of unconditional faith in God, Shi'i thinkers recognize a distinction between the human and the divine. Concerned with the challenge of constructing a virtuous society, these thinkers pose a model of authority and morality based on mediation, interpretation and participation in the experience of faith. Ori Goldberg considers this interpretative model utilizing a broad array of theoretical tools, most notably critical theologies drawn from Jewish and Christian thought. He draws on a close reading of several texts written by prominent Iranian Shi'i thinkers between 1940 and 2000, most of which are translated into English for the first time, to reveal a vibrant, complex discourse. Presenting a new interfaith perspective on a subject usually considered beyond the scope of such research, this book will be an important reference for scholars of Iranian studies, political Islam, theology and cultural studies.
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Interest in Shi'i Islam is running at unprecedented levels. International tensions over Iran, where the largest number of Shi'i Muslims live, as well as the political resurgence of the Shi'i in Iraq and Lebanon, have created an urgent need to understand the background, beliefs and motivations of this dynamic vision of Islam. Abbas Amanat is one of the leading scholars of Shi'ism. And in this powerful book, a showcase for some of his most influential writing in the field, he addresses the colourful and diverse history of Shi' Islam in both premodern and contemporary times.Focusing specifically on the importance of apocalypticism in the development of modern Shi'i theology, he shows how an immersion in messianic ideas has shaped the conservative character of much Shi'i thinking, and has prevented it from taking a more progressive course. Tracing the continuity of apocalyptic trends from the Middle Ages to the present, Amanat addresses such topics as the early influence on Shi'ism of Zoroastrianism; manifestations of apocalyptic ideology during the Iranian Revolution of 1979; and the rise of the Shi'i clerical establishment during the 19th and 20th centuries. His book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of both religious studies and Middle Eastern history.
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