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

Said Amir Arjomand

(Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, no. 17)

University of Chicago Press, 1984

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Bibliography: p. 327-340

Includes index

Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1978

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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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