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100	1		_aSaïd Amir Arjomand
245	1	0	_aMessianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam
264		1	_aOakland: _bUniversity of California Press, _c2022
300			_a358 p., _c26 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMahdism _xPolitical aspects _xHistory
650		0	_aIslam and state _zIslamic Empire _xHistory
650		0	_aMessianism _zIslamic Empire _xHistory
650		0	_aRevolutions _zIslamic Empire _xHistory
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