Revolutions of the End of Time: Apocalypse, Revolution and Reaction in the Persianate World / / Saïd Amir Arjomand.

• VerfasserIn: Arjomand, Saïd Amir,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)

"As with all general history, Islamic history is conventionally approached in terms of evolutionary trends and continuities. This study in historical sociology of the millennial or Mahdist movements and their long-term impact, in contrast, focuses on abrupt discontinuities in the form of revolutions as apocalyptic breaks, and on the reaction of the ruling authorities as counter-revolution aiming at routinizing these charismatic irruptions into history by absorbing their impact within the prevalent structure of authorities, and thereby re-establishing the continuity that is taken for granted by future historians. For the framework of this analysis of the dynamics of revolution, and reaction within a single world region, it chooses the civilizational zone defined by its cultural unity as the Persianate world"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1 The Motivation of Revolution: Millennial and Modern Myths -- 2 Consequences of Apocalyptic Messianism and Structural Models of Revolution -- 3 Revolution and Counter-Revolution as Consequences of Apocalyptic Mahdism -- 4 The Entangled Historical Sociology of the Persianate World and the Persianate Conception of Revolution -- 2 Shiʿism, Sufism, and the Symbolism of Kingship in the Formation of Persianate Islam -- 1 The Revival of the Persian Language and the Emergence of Persianate Islam -- 2 The Disestablishment and Refiguration of Islam in the Persianate World in the Age of Confessional Ambiguity -- 3 The Estate System of the Turko-Mongolian Empires and the Subversive Symbolic Repertoire of the Persian Subject Estate -- 3 Sufism and Shiʿite Millennialism in the Il-Khanid and Timurid Empires -- 1 Sufism and Frontier Millennialism in Turko-Mongolian Anatolia -- 2 The Horufi Urban Movement and Its Struggle against Turko-Mongolian Domination -- 3 Apocalypticism and the Occult Sciences in the Uprising of Kadi Bedreddin during the Ottoman Interregnum -- 4 The Shiʿitized Sufi Mahdism of Sayyed Mohammad Nurbakhsh -- 4 Royal Reactions to Apocalyptic Messianism and the Reinforced Legitimation of Autocracy -- 1 Royal Counter-Messianism in the Timurid Empire -- 2 The Ottoman Containment of Sufi Millennialism -- 3 Orthodox Reform and the Counter-Messianic Caliphate of God under the Āq Qoyunlu -- 5 The Causes and Process of Shah Esmāʿil's Mahdist Revolution -- 1 Sufism, the Safavid Order, and Its Turn to Militant Mahdism -- 2 Revolutionary Mobilization in a Khaldunian Revolution -- 3 The Opportunity Structure and Process of the Safavid Revolution -- 4 The Failure to Export the Revolution to the Ottoman Empire.

5 The Containment of Millennialism and the Routinization of Mahdistic Charisma into Kingship -- 6 Sunni Reactions to the Safavid Mahdist Revolution and the Ottoman Imperial Counter-Revolution -- 1 The Transplantation of the Counter-Millennial Sovereignty to the Mughal Empire in India -- 2 The Sunni Counter-Revolution in the Uzbek Empire in Central Asia -- 3 The Ottoman Counter-Messianism and Its Sunni Counter-Revolution -- 7 The Mahdi of Light and His Millenarian Revolution in Tribal Afghanistan -- 1 Sufi Messianism in Northwestern India as a Prelude to the Rawshani Revolution -- 2 A Khaldunian Revolution on the Periphery of Timurid India and Its Failure -- 3 The Mahdist Movement of Shaykh Bāyazid Ansāri in Comparative Perspective -- 8 The Fall of the Safavid Empire as a Revolution in World History -- 1 A Proto-Modern Persianate Revolution without a Mahdi -- 2 The Collapse of the Center in the Safavid Empire and Its Causes -- 3 The Fragmentation of the Safavid Empire and Revolutionary Multiple Sovereignty (1722-1732) -- 4 From Revolutionary Violence to Wars of Conquest: Nāder's Imperial Autocracy (1732-1747) -- 5 The End of a Long Revolution: from the Safavid Empire to the Nation-State of Iran -- 9 The Persistence of Apocalyptic Mahdism and the Coming of the Modern Myth of Revolution -- 1 The Other Revolutions of 1848: the Babi Uprisings in Iran in Comparison to the Taiping Revolution in China -- 2 Millennial Beliefs and Iran's Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) -- 10 The Millennial Motivation and Significance of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran -- 1 The Modern Myth of Revolution and Its Unexpected Protagonists -- 2 Khomeini's Apocalyptic Theosophy and Post-modern Apocalypticism in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 -- 3 The Significance of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Excursus: A Sunni Apocalypse at Last: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria -- References -- Index.