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 indigeus 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 ecomic 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
ISBN-10
178074496x
ISBN-13
9781780744964
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214351910
Product Key Features
Author
Zackery M. Heern
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Non-Christian Religions
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
431g
Height
234mm
Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Spine
19mm
First Published
2014
Author Biography
Zackery M. Heern is a professor of Middle East and Islamic studies at Murray State University. His research and teaching interests include Shi'ism, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Movements, and Global History. He lives in Murray, America.
Date of Publication
04/06/2015
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Non-Christian Religions
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