Download or read book Authority and Political Culture in Shi ism written by Said Amir Arjomand and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Contributors 1 Introduction: Shi’ism, Authority, and Political Culture Said Amir Arjomand Part I Essays 2 Imam and Community in the Pre-Ghayba Period Etan Kohlberg 3 The Evolution of Popular Eulogy of the Imams among the Shi’a Mohammad-Dja’far Mahdjoub and John R. Perry 4 The Mujtahid of the Age and the Mulla-bashi: An Intermediate Stage in the Institutionalization of Religious Authority in Shi’ite Iran Said Amir Arjomand 5 In Between the Madrasa and the Marketplace: The Designation of Clerical Leadership in Modern Shi’ism Abbas Amanat 6 Constitutionalism and Clerical Authority Abdol Karim Lahidji 7 Shari’at Sangalaji: A Reformist Theologian of the Rida Shah Period Yann Richard and Kathryn Arjomand 8 Ideological Revolution in Shi’ism Said Amir Arjomand Part II Selected Sources 9 An Annotated Bibliography on Government and Statecraft Mohammad-Taqi Danishpazhouh and Andrew Newman 10 ‘Allama al-Hilli on the Imamate and Ijtihad John Cooper 11 Two Decrees of Shah Tahmasp Concerning Statecraft and the Authority of Shaykh ‘All al-Karaki Said Amir Arjomand 12 The Muqaddas al-Ardabili on Taqlid John Cooper 13 Two Seventeenth-Century Persian Tracts on Kingship and Rulers William C. Chittick 14 Lives of Prominent Nineteenth-Century ‘Ulama’ from Tunika-buni’s Qisas al-’Ulama’ Hamid Dabashi 15 An Exchange between a Mujtahid and a Qajar Official Hamid Dabashi 16 Two Clerical Tracts on Constitutionalism Hamid Dabashi 17 Clerical Authority in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran Index

Download or read book Shi ism Resistance And Revolution written by Martin Kramer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent revival of interest in the Muslim world has generated numerous studies of modern Islam, most of them focusing on the Sunni majority. Shi'ism, an often stigmatized minority branch of Islam, has been discussed mainly in connection with Iran. Yet Shi'i movements have been extraordinarily effective in creating political strategies that have

Download or read book Shi ism written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, ShiÕism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of ShiÕism as a religion of protestÑsuccessful only when in a warring position, and losing its legitimacy when in power. Dabashi makes his case through a detailed discussion of the ShiÕi doctrinal foundations, a panoramic view of its historical unfolding, a varied investigation into its visual and performing arts, and finally a focus on the three major sites of its contemporary contestations: Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. In these states, ShiÕism seems to have ceased to be a sect within the larger context of Islam and has instead emerged to claim global political attention. Here we see ShiÕism in its combative modeÑreminiscent of its traumatic birth in early Islamic history. Hezbollah in Lebanon claims ShiÕism, as do the militant insurgents in Iraq, the ruling Ayatollahs in Iran, and the masses of youthful demonstrators rebelling against their reign. All declare their active loyalties to a religion of protest that has defined them and their ancestry for almost fourteen hundred years. ShiÕsm: A Religion of Protest attends to the explosive conflicts in the Middle East with an abiding attention to historical facts, cultural forces, religious convictions, literary and artistic nuances, and metaphysical details. This timely book offers readers a bravely intelligent history of a world religion.

Download or read book The Rule of Law Islam and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran written by Saïd Amir Arjomand and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Egypt and Iran have been beset with demands for fundamental change. The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran draws together leading regional experts to provide a penetrating comparative analysis of the ways Islam is entangled with the process of democratization in authoritarian regimes. By comparing Islam and the rule of law in these two nations, one Sunni and Arab-speaking, the other Shi>ite and Persian-speaking, this volume enriches the current debate on Islam and democracy, making for a more nuanced understanding and appreciation of differences with the Muslim world, and provides an indispensible background for understanding the Green movement in Iran since 2009 and the Egyptian revolution of 2011

Download or read book The Divine Guide in Early Shi ism written by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imam, the Divine Guide, is the central point around which the Shi'ite religion turns. The power of Shi'ism comes from the actions of the Imam. This title is reserved exclusively for the sucessors of the prophets in their mission. The author shows that from the beginning of Shi'ite Islam until the tenth century, the Imam was primarily a master of knowledge with supernatural powers, not a jurist theologian. The Imam is the threshold through which God and the creatures communicate. He is thus a cosmic necessity, the key and the center of the universal economy of the sacred. The author presents Shi'ism as a religion founded on double dimensions where the role of the leader remains constantly central: perpetual initiation into divine secrets and continued confrontation with anti-initiation forces. Without esotericism, exotericism loses its meaning. Early Imamism is an esoteric doctrine. Historically, then, at the beginning of esotericism in Islam, we find an initiatory, mystical, and occultist doctrine. This is the first book to systematically explore the immense literature attributed to the Imams themselves in order to recover the authentic original vision. It restores an essential source of esotericism in the world of Islam.

Download or read book Shi ism written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi’ism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of Shi’ism as a religion of protest—successful only when in a warring position, and losing its legitimacy when in power. Dabashi makes his case through a detailed discussion of the Shi’i doctrinal foundations, a panoramic view of its historical unfolding, a varied investigation into its visual and performing arts, and finally a focus on the three major sites of its contemporary contestations: Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. In these states, Shi’ism seems to have ceased to be a sect within the larger context of Islam and has instead emerged to claim global political attention. Here we see Shi’ism in its combative mode—reminiscent of its traumatic birth in early Islamic history. Hezbollah in Lebanon claims Shi’ism, as do the militant insurgents in Iraq, the ruling Ayatollahs in Iran, and the masses of youthful demonstrators rebelling against their reign. All declare their active loyalties to a religion of protest that has defined them and their ancestry for almost fourteen hundred years. Shi’sm: A Religion of Protest attends to the explosive conflicts in the Middle East with an abiding attention to historical facts, cultural forces, religious convictions, literary and artistic nuances, and metaphysical details. This timely book offers readers a bravely intelligent history of a world religion.

Download or read book Asian Power and Politics written by Lucian W. Pye and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1985-09 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pye reconceptualizes Asian political development as a product of cultural attitudes about power and authority. He contrasts the great traditions of Confucian East Asia with the Southeast Asian cultures and the South Asian traditions of Hinduism and Islam, and explores the national differences within these larger civilizations.

Download or read book Expectation of the Millennium written by ?usain Na?r and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-04-26 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology on the history, politics, and social aspects of Shi'ism including translations of original sources. It examines the historical development of Shi'ism, Shi'i political thought, the status of Shi'i minority communities in the Muslim world, and the life and works of prominent social and political thinkers. The book assesses the extent of the politicization process in Shi'ism in recent years and addresses that important question of the Shi'i attitude towards authority.

Download or read book Shi ism in America written by Liyakat Nathani Takim and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative introduction to the Shi’i community in America, tracing its history, composition, and the development of American Shi’i identity. There are over two million Shi’is Muslims in the United States. With community roots going back sometimes close to one hundred years, Shi’is can be found in major cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, and Dearborn, Michigan. Early in the century, Shi’is and Sunnis sometimes arrived at the same time, worshipped together, shared similar experiences, and confronted the same challenges despite their sectarian differences. In this comprehensive study, Liyakat Nathani Takim provides an in-depth account of the American Shi’i experience. Both tracing the early history and illuminating the more recent past with surveys and interviews, Takim explores the life of this community. Filling an important scholarly gap, he also demonstrates how living in the West has impelled the Shi’i community to grapple with the ways in which Islamic law may respond to the challenges of modernity. Shi’ism in America provides a much-needed overview of the history of this United States religious community, from religious, cultural, and political institutions to inter-group relations, to the experience of African American Shi’is.

Download or read book Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran written by Shahrough Akhavi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable for understanding the recent conflicts in Iran, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran provides a political history of the fluctuating relationships between the Islamic clergy and Iranian government since 1925. How different factions of the clergy, or ulama first lost and then regained a powerful position in Iran is the subject of this book. Akhavi analyzes how various factions within the clergy have responded to the government's efforts to encourage modernization and secularization, giving particular attention to the changes in the madrasahs, or theological colleges. He examines the main themes of the AyatullaH Khymayni's book, Islamic Government, and concludes by examining the alignments among the clergy in the past that indicate how they may develop in the future.

Download or read book The Political Dimensions of Religion written by Saïd Amir Arjomand and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-08-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relationship between religion and politics. It brings a varied sample of richly detailed comparative and case studies together with a set of analytical paradigms in an integrated framework. It is a major statement on a timely subject, and a plea for the acknowledgment of normative pluralism as firmly rooted in the history of religion. The editor shows that the fact of political diversity in the history of world religions compels the acceptance of pluralism as a normative principle.

Download or read book Shi i Islam written by Najam Haider and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of Shi'i Islam through the lenses of belief, narrative, and memory.

Download or read book The Role of Political Culture in Iranian Political Development written by Dal Seung Yu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of the impediments to political development is one of the most important discussions which has major theoretical and political consequences. This analysis has been controversial and many different aspects have been introduced as elements for political underdevelopment. In this study, Dal Seung Yu takes culture, a key element in this discussion, and explains the major cultural impediments to political development in Iran. He focuses on the historical attitudes of people towards the political management of the society and the effect these attitudes have on slowing the development of this political system in the society. Those concerned with Iran, the Middle East and political culture will be extremely interested in this provocative text.

Download or read book The Politics of Collective Mourning Negotiating Power at the Intersection of Shi ism Gender and Popular Culture in Iran written by Esha Momeni and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation, The Politics of Collective Mourning: Negotiating Power at the Intersection of Shi'ism, Gender, and Popular Culture in Iran, examines the social and political role of Shi'i collective mourning rituals, specifically nohe rituals, in the post-revolutionary Iran. These rituals commemorate the death of the Shi'i Imams and are essential to Shi'i cultural paradigms and identities. Moreover, they have played an important role in the legitimation of the Iranian state since their popularization in the sixteenth century. Although historically, women have participated in public mourning sessions in different forms, as audience and as storytellers, mourning rituals are spaces within which masculinity is defined and practiced and homosocial relationships between men are developed. Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, these mourning ceremonies have gone through major semantic and performative shifts. In recent years, the state has started the process of institutionalizing the mourning rituals and groups by creating governmental structures to organize, supervise, and surveille them. In the past decade, with the financial support of the state, mourning groups have doubled in number, making up the largest cultural and advertisement network in the Shi'i world. In reaction, a grassroot movement began that departed from the rituals' traditional manners in both content and form to serve as a public political medium and voice radical criticism of political structures and economic conditions. Despite their cultural, social, and political significance, nohe rituals remain understudied in the scholarly literature. Examining the radical semantic and performative changes in the practices of these rituals, my research seeks to understand how the negotiations and confrontations between the contemporary Iranian state and citizens that take place at the site of mourning rituals, are informed by gender, class, and politics.

Download or read book Shi ism written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55. Ann K S Lambton, ?Quis custodiet custodes: some reflections on the Persian theory of government? in Studia Islamica, Vol. 6 (1956), pp. 125-46. 56. Imam Khomeini, ?Program for the establishment of an Islamic government? in Hamid Algar (Transl.), Islam and revolution: writings and declarations of Imam Khomeini (Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1981), pp. 126-49 and 163-66. 57. Norman Calder, ?Accommodation and revolution in Imami Shi?i jurisprudence: Khumayni and the classical tradition? in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 18 (1982), pp. 3-20. 58. Farhad Kazemi, ?The Fada?iyan-e Islam: fanaticism, politics and terror? in Said Amir Arjomand (Ed.), From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam (London: Macmillan Press, 1984), pp. 158-76. 59. Shahrough Akhavi, ?Islam, politics and society in the thought of Ayatullah Khomeini, Ayatullah Taliqani and Ali Shariati? in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 24 (1988), pp. 404-31. 60. J G J ter Haar, ?Murtaz? Mutahhar? (1919-1979): an introduction to his life and thought? in Persica, Vol. 14 (1990-1992), pp. 1-21. 61. Vanessa Martin, ?Religion and state in Khumain??s Kashf al-asr?r? in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 56, No. 1 (1993), pp. 34-45 62. Said Amir Arjomand, ?Shi?ite jurisprudence and constitution making in the Islamic Republic of Iran? in Martin E Marty and R Scott Appleby, Fundamentalisms and the State (Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1993), pp. 88-109. 63. Shahla Haeri, ?Obedience versus autonomy: women and fundamentalism in Pakistan and Iran? in Martin E Marty and R Scott Appleby, Fundamentalisms and Society (Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1993), pp. 181-213. 64. T M Aziz, ?The role of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr in Shi?i political activism in Iraq from 1958 to 1980? in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 25 (1993), pp. 207-22. 65. Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi, ?The institutionalization of marja?-i taql?d in the nineteenth century Sh??ite community? in The Muslim World, Vol. 83 (1994), pp. 279-99. 66. Shahrough Akhavi, ?Contending discourses in Shi?i law on the doctrine of wil?yat al faq?h? in Iranian Studies, Vol. 29 (1996), pp. 229-68. 67. Sylwia Surdykowska, ?The spiritual aspect of jihad and Khomeini?s doctrine? in Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, No. 13 (2000), pp. 75-84. 68. Evan Siegel, ?The politics of Shah?d-e J?w?d? in Rainer Brunner & Werner Ende (Eds.), The Twelver Shia in modern times: religious culture & political history (Boston: Brill, 2001), pp. 150-77. 69. Mortaza Motahhari, ?The fundamental problem in the clerical establishment? in Linda S. Walbridge, The Most Learned of the Shi?a (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 161-82. 70. Roswitha Badry, ?Marja?iyya and sh?r?? in Rainer Brunner & Werner Ende (Eds.), The Twelver Shia in modern times: religious culture & political history (Boston: Brill, 2001), pp. 188-207. 71. Talib Aziz, ?Fadlallah and the remaking of the marja?iya? in Linda S. Walbridge, The Most Learned of the Shi?a (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 205-15. 72. Charles Kurzman, ?Critics within: Islamic scholars? protests against the Islamic state in Iran? in International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2001), pp. 341-59. 73. Juan Cole, ?Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa?i on the sources of religious authority? in Linda S. Walbridge, The Most Learned of the Shi?a (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 82-93. 74. Mahmoud Sadri, ?Sacral defense of secularism: the political theologies of Soroush, Shabestari and Kadivar? in International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2001), pp. 257-70. 75. Mona Harb & Reinoud Leenders, ?Know thy enemy: Hizbullah, ?terrorism? and the politics of perception? in Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2005), pp. 173-97.

Download or read book The History of Shi ism and Iranian Shi ism written by Sophie Duhnkrack and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 85, Ben Gurion University, course: Iran , language: English, abstract: Ervand Abrahamian introduces his work Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic with a discussion of two terms interesting for an analysis of the Islamic Revolution, particularly considering Western images of Khomeini and his movement: fundamentalism and populism. These ideologically loaded concepts depict the book’s central thesis, namely that fundamentalism is not an appropriate term for describing Khomeini, his ideas and movement. According to Abrahamian, it alludes “religious inflexibility, ... political traditionalism, ... social conservatism, the centrality of scriptural-doctrinal principles, [and] ... the rejection of the modern world.” He instead presents populism as a more apposite term, which “connotes attempts made by nation-states to enter that world.” The scholars Daniele Albertazzi and Duncam McDonnell define ‘populism’ in a widely accepted definition as an ideology which pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous ‘others’ who are together depicted as depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity and voice. Essentially approving of Abrahamian’s cited thesis, this essay attempts to illustrate that the Islamic Revolution, led by Ayatollah Khomeini, does not represent a movement driven by “religious fundamentalism” or “fanaticism,” but the Iranian way of emancipation from domestic and foreign oppression and domination, materialized by the Shah and the West. This thesis will be developed through exploring the Shi’ite history and especially its appearance in Iran. Furthermore it will continually explore the religion’s revolutionary and supposedly fanatical characteristics and its contribution to the 1979 revolution, which, as its leader Khomeini, Western mainstream media often denounce as fundamentalist and radical.

Download or read book Scripture and Exegesis in Early Im m Shiism written by Meʼir Mikhaʼel Bar-Asher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the features and methods of Imami exegesis.