Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam

Said Amir Arjomand (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

388 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38758-4 (ISBN)

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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, Saïd 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.

Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University, founder of the Association for the Study of Persianate Society, editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies, and author of Revolution: Structure and Meaning in World History.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Emergence of Apocalyptic Messianism from the Maccabean Nativist Revolution
2. Muhammad’s Constitutive Revolution and Its Apocalyptic Roots
3. Civil Wars and the Emergence of Apocalyptic Mahdism
4. The Self-Destruction of the Umayyad Empire
5. The Process of the Hashemite Revolution
6. The Integrative and Centralizing Consequences of the Abbasid Realized Mahdism
7. Apocalyptic Messianism in the Fatimid Revolution
8. The Almohad Revolution of Mahdi Ibn Tumart and the Berbers
9. The Islamicate Conceptions of Revolution
Concluding Remarks

Abbreviations
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2022
Zusatzinfo	1 b-w illustration, 4 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	0-520-38758-9 / 0520387589
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38758-4 / 9780520387584
Zustand	Neuware