Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam

The 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.

• | Author: Said Amir Arjomand
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 25, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 388 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0520387589
• | ISBN-13: 9780520387584