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Heern Zackery M.
The Emergence Of Modern Shi'ism Islamic Reform In Iraq And Iran
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Description: This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to European modernity. However this study focuses on the rise of Islamic movements indigenous to the Middle East which developed in direct response to the collapse and decentralization of the Islamic gunpowder empires. In other words the book argues that the Usuli movement as well as Wahhabism and neo - Sufism emerged in reaction to the disintegration and political decentralization of the Safavid Ottoman and Mughal empires. The book specifically highlights the emergence of Usuli Shi ism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The long - term impact of the Usuli revival was that Shi i clerics gained unprecedented social political and economic power in Iran and southern Iraq. Usuli clerics claimed authority to issue binding legal judgments which they argue must be observed by all Shi is. By the early nineteenth century Usulism emerged as a popular fiercely independent transnational Islamic movement. The Usuli clerics have often operated at the heart of social and political developments in modern Iraq and Iran and today dominate the politics of the region.
Title: The Emergence Of Modern Shi'ism Islamic Reform In Iraq And Iran
Author(s): Heern Zackery M.
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Barcode: 9781780744964
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 7/1/2015
Category: Islam
Description: This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to European modernity. However this study focuses on the rise of Islamic movements indigenous to the Middle East which developed in direct response to the collapse and decentralization of the Islamic gunpowder empires. In other words the book argues that the Usuli movement as well as Wahhabism and neo - Sufism emerged in reaction to the disintegration and political decentralization of the Safavid Ottoman and Mughal empires. The book specifically highlights the emergence of Usuli Shi ism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The long - term impact of the Usuli revival was that Shi i clerics gained unprecedented social political and economic power in Iran and southern Iraq. Usuli clerics claimed authority to issue binding legal judgments which they argue must be observed by all Shi is. By the early nineteenth century Usulism emerged as a popular fiercely independent transnational Islamic movement. The Usuli clerics have often operated at the heart of social and political developments in modern Iraq and Iran and today dominate the politics of the region.
Title: The Emergence Of Modern Shi'ism Islamic Reform In Iraq And Iran
Author(s): Heern Zackery M.
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Barcode: 9781780744964
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 7/1/2015
Category: Islam