Author : Said Amir Arjomand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520387584
Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam by Said Amir Arjomand Pdf
The emergence of apocalyptic messianism from the Maccabean Nativist Revolution -- Muhammad's constitutive revolution and its apocalyptic roots -- Civil wars and the emergence of apocalyptic Mahdism -- Self-destruction of the Umayyad Empire -- The process of the Hashemite Revolution -- The Integrative and centralizing consequences of the Abbasid realized Mahdism -- Apocalyptic messianism in the Fatimid Revolution -- The Almohad Revolution of Mahdi Ibn Tumart and the Berbers -- The Islamicate conceptions of revolution.