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Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890
Dismissing oversimplified and politically charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly researched sociological a...
A study of Mahdist movements focusing on abrupt discontinuities, revolutions as apocalyptic breaks, and on the reaction of the ruling authorities as c...
Collected Essays
Sociology of Shiʿite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shiʿism. Its bearers first emerged as a sectarian elite, then a hierocracy...
Structure and Meaning in World History
A revolution is a discontinuity: one political order replaces another, typically through whatever violent means are available. Modern theories of revo...