Expectation of the Millennium: Shiʿism in History - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088706843X ISBN 13: 9780887068430

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. Hamid Dabashi is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 088706843X
• ISBN 13: 9780887068430
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 494
• Herausgeber: Nasr Seyyed Hossein, Dabashi Hamid, Reza Nasr Seyyed Vali
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar