1: Battle of the Old and the Charismatic; 2: Traditional Arab Authority: An Established Order; 3: Muhammad’s Charismatic Authority: Towards an Equivalent Islam Typology; 4: Establishment of Muhammad’s Charismatic Authority: Emergence of a New Order; 5: The Foundations of Sunnite Authority: The Routinization of Charisma; 6: The Foundations of Shi c ite Authority: The Perpetuation of Charisma; 7: The Foundations of Kharijite Authority: The Dissemination of Charisma; 8: The Charismatic Revolution as a Reconstitution of a Moral Demand System and an Originator of New Paradigmatic Patterns of Authority
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of, among other works, the acclaimed Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads.
-In this unprecendented study, Dabashi combines the insights of
Weberian sociology with Rieffian psychoanalysis and applies both to
the originary period of Islamic history... [S]atisfying book.
Recommended for all levels of readers.- --B. B. Lawrence,
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"In this unprecendented study, Dabashi combines the insights of
Weberian sociology with Rieffian psychoanalysis and applies both to
the originary period of Islamic history... [S]atisfying book.
Recommended for all levels of readers." --B. B. Lawrence,
Choice
"In this unprecendented study, Dabashi combines the insights of
Weberian sociology with Rieffian psychoanalysis and applies both to
the originary period of Islamic history... [S]atisfying book.
Recommended for all levels of readers." --B. B. Lawrence, Choice
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