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Expectation of the millennium : Shi�ism in history / edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1989.Description: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 460 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585078491
  • 9780585078496
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Expectation of the millennium.DDC classification:
  • 297/.82 19
LOC classification:
  • BP194.185 .E96 1989eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Imamate / Karl-Heinrich G�obel -- Messianism and the Mahdi / �Allamah Tabataba�i, Jassim M. Hussain, & Abdulaziz A. Sachedina -- Martyrdom / Abdulaziz A. Sachedina & Hamid Enayat -- Jihad / �Allamah al-Hilli -- The Shi�i principles of jurisprudence / Hossein Moddaressi Tabataba�i -- Ruler and society / Imam �Ali & Sulayman Kattani -- Political theory and practice / Ann K. Lambton & Said Amir Arjomand -- Economic theories and practices / Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr & Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmud Taliqani -- The historical growth of Shi�ism / �Allamah Tabataba�i -- The Buyid era / Marshall Hodgson -- The Safavid era / Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Roger Savory, Said Amir Arjomand, & Albert Hourani -- The Qajar era / Said Amir Arjomand & Hamid Algar -- The Pahlavi era / Shahrough Akhavi & Said Amir Arjomand -- Shi�ism in the Indian subcontinent / John Hollister & Annemarie Schimmel -- Shi�ism in the Arab world / Michel Mazzaoui, Helena Cobban, & Hanna Batatu -- Shi�ism in Turkey / Metin And -- Shi�ism in East Africa / Jan Knappert -- The Usuli-Akhbari controversy / Mangol Bayat & Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi -- Early propagation of wilayat-i faqih and Mulla Ahmad Naraqi / Hamid Dabashi -- The tobacco rebellion and Haji Mirza Hasan Shirazi / Edward G. Browne & Nikki R. Keddie -- The debates over the constitutional revolution / Hamid Enayat, Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Na�ini, & Shaykh Fadlullah Nuri -- Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khumayni and wilayat-i faqih / Hamid Enayat, Mangol Bayat, & Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khumayni -- �Ali Shari�ati / Shahrough Akhavi, Hamid Dabashi, & �Ali Shari�ati -- Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari / Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari -- Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr / Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr -- Imam Musa Sadr / Fouad Ajami.
Summary: This is an anthology on the history, politics, and social aspects of Shi'ism including translations of original sources. It examines the historical development of Shi'ism, Shi'i political thought, the status of Shi'i minority communities in the Muslim world, and the life and works of prominent social and political thinkers. The book assesses the extent of the politicization process in Shi'ism in recent years and addresses that important question of the Shi'i attitude towards authority.
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Includes index.

Introduction / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Imamate / Karl-Heinrich G�obel -- Messianism and the Mahdi / �Allamah Tabataba�i, Jassim M. Hussain, & Abdulaziz A. Sachedina -- Martyrdom / Abdulaziz A. Sachedina & Hamid Enayat -- Jihad / �Allamah al-Hilli -- The Shi�i principles of jurisprudence / Hossein Moddaressi Tabataba�i -- Ruler and society / Imam �Ali & Sulayman Kattani -- Political theory and practice / Ann K. Lambton & Said Amir Arjomand -- Economic theories and practices / Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr & Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmud Taliqani -- The historical growth of Shi�ism / �Allamah Tabataba�i -- The Buyid era / Marshall Hodgson -- The Safavid era / Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Roger Savory, Said Amir Arjomand, & Albert Hourani -- The Qajar era / Said Amir Arjomand & Hamid Algar -- The Pahlavi era / Shahrough Akhavi & Said Amir Arjomand -- Shi�ism in the Indian subcontinent / John Hollister & Annemarie Schimmel -- Shi�ism in the Arab world / Michel Mazzaoui, Helena Cobban, & Hanna Batatu -- Shi�ism in Turkey / Metin And -- Shi�ism in East Africa / Jan Knappert -- The Usuli-Akhbari controversy / Mangol Bayat & Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi -- Early propagation of wilayat-i faqih and Mulla Ahmad Naraqi / Hamid Dabashi -- The tobacco rebellion and Haji Mirza Hasan Shirazi / Edward G. Browne & Nikki R. Keddie -- The debates over the constitutional revolution / Hamid Enayat, Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Na�ini, & Shaykh Fadlullah Nuri -- Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khumayni and wilayat-i faqih / Hamid Enayat, Mangol Bayat, & Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khumayni -- �Ali Shari�ati / Shahrough Akhavi, Hamid Dabashi, & �Ali Shari�ati -- Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari / Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari -- Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr / Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr -- Imam Musa Sadr / Fouad Ajami.

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This is an anthology on the history, politics, and social aspects of Shi'ism including translations of original sources. It examines the historical development of Shi'ism, Shi'i political thought, the status of Shi'i minority communities in the Muslim world, and the life and works of prominent social and political thinkers. The book assesses the extent of the politicization process in Shi'ism in recent years and addresses that important question of the Shi'i attitude towards authority.

English.

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