TY - BOOK ID - 4895699 TI - Sociology of Shi'ite Islam PY - 2016 SN - 9789004312258 9004312250 9789004326279 9004326278 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Shi'ah. KW - Shi'ah KW - Chiisme KW - Iran KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Shīʻah. KW - Shīʻah KW - 297 KW - 297 Islamisme. Mahométisme KW - 297 Islam. Mohammedanisme KW - Islamisme. Mahométisme KW - Islam. Mohammedanisme KW - Imamites KW - Shia KW - Shiism KW - Twelvers (Islam) KW - Islamic sects KW - Alids KW - 297 Islam KW - Islam KW - Iran. KW - Êran KW - I-lang KW - I.R.A. KW - I.R.I. KW - Ir KW - IRI KW - Islamic Republic of Iran KW - Islamische Republik Iran KW - Islamskai͡a Respublika Iran KW - Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān KW - Komarî Îslamî Êran KW - Northern Tier KW - Paras KW - Paras-Iran KW - Persia KW - Persia-Iran KW - República Islâmica do Ir UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4895699 AB - Sociology of Shi'ite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shi'ism. Its bearers first emerged as a sectarian elite, then a hierocracy and finally a theocracy. Imamate, Occultation and the theodicy of martyrdom are identified as the main components of the Shi'ism as a world religion. In these collected essays Arjomand has persistenly developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shi'ism, from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through the establishment of the Safavid empire in the sixteenth century, to the Islamic revolution in Iran in the twentieth century. These studies highlight revolutionary impulses embedded in the belief in the advent of the hidden Imam, and the impact of Shiʻite political ethics on the authority structure of pre-modern Iran and the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ER -