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Apocalypse in Islam
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Jean-Pierre Filiu
Categories: Islam and politics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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
Apocalypse in Islam
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Jean-Pierre Filiu
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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
Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Todd Lawson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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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
Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: David Cook
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-21 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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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
The Apocalypse of Empire
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Stephen J. Shoemaker
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-09 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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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,