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Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
This is an eye-opening exploration of a troubling phenomenon: the fast-growing belief in Muslim countries that the end of the world is at hand. Jean-Pierre Fili
Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Millenarianism has emerged as a powerful force across the Islamic world. Identifying 1979 as a decisive year, Filiu stresses the ease with which subsequent even
Language: en
Pages: 239
Pages: 239
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-12 - Publisher: Routledge
Of the several works on the rise and development of the Babi movement, especially those dealing with the life and work of its founder, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shira
Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-21 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Although apocalyptic visions and predictions have long been part of classical and contemporary Islam, this book is the first scholarly work to cover this dispar
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-09 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
In The Apocalypse of Empire, Stephen J. Shoemaker argues that earliest Islam was a movement driven by urgent eschatological belief that focused on the conquest,