The shadow of God and the Hidden Imam : religion, political order, and societal change in Shiʿite Iran from the beginning to 1890
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The shadow of God and the Hidden Imam : religion, political order, and societal change in Shiʿite Iran from the beginning to 1890
（Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, no. 17）
University of Chicago Press, 1984
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Note
Bibliography: p. 327-340
Includes index
Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1978
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Description
Dismissing oversimplified and politically charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, the author offers a researched sociological and historical study of Shi'ism and the political order of premodern Iran that exposes the roots of what became Khomeini's theocracy.
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