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Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam (Hardcover)
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Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam (Hardcover)
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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, Said 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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