Mahdis and Millenarians is a discussion of Shiite groups in eighth-
and ninth-century Iraq and Iran, whose ideas reflected a mixture of
indigenous non-Muslim religious teachings and practices in Iraq in
the early centuries of Islamic rule. It demonstrates the period's
fluidity of religious boundaries. Particular attention is given to
the millenarian expectations and the revolutionary political
activities of these sects. Specifically, it seeks to define the
term 'millenarian', to explain how these groups reflect that
definition, and to show how they need to be seen in a much larger
context than Shiite or even Muslim history. The author
concentrates, therefore, on the historical-sociological role of
these movements. The thesis of the study is that they were the
first revolutionary chiliastic groups in Islamic history and,
combined with the later influence of some of their doctrines,
contributed to the teachings of a number of subsequent Shiite or
quasi-Shiite sectarian groups.
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