Sociology of Shiʿite Islam - Collected Essays

Sociology of Shiʿite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shiʿism from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through its establishment as Iran's national religion in the sixteenth to the Islamic revolution Iran in the twentieth century.

About the author

Saïd Amir Arjomand (Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1980) is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies, President of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and Editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Saïd Amir Arjomand
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2016
• EAN: 9789004312258
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31225-8
• No. of pages: 498
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)