Download or read book Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam written by Said Amir Arjomand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of apocalyptic messianism from the Maccabean Nativist Revolution -- Muhammad's constitutive revolution and its apocalyptic roots -- Civil wars and the emergence of apocalyptic Mahdism -- Self-destruction of the Umayyad Empire -- The process of the Hashemite Revolution -- The Integrative and centralizing consequences of the Abbasid realized Mahdism -- Apocalyptic messianism in the Fatimid Revolution -- The Almohad Revolution of Mahdi Ibn Tumart and the Berbers -- The Islamicate conceptions of revolution.