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Messianism and Puritanical Reform (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World)

By Mercedes Garcia-Arenal

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2006
ISBN
900415051X, 9789004150515
LCC
DP98 .G37 2006
Open Library ID
OL22732999M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5437405 bytes)
Pages
404\407
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is a book about revolutionary movements of a messianic and millenarian character, led by a "mahdi", in Islamic terms, a charismatic messianic leader. It also addresses the question of mediation between God and men and the political repercussions of this question in the history of the pre-Modern Muslim West. Mahdism is considered in relation to sufi ideas, terminology and symbols which shape notions of authority and of legitimate power when claiming direct, intimate contact between the holy and the divine. The relationship between mahdism and the legitimacy of power, the process by which the messianic paradigm becomes inseparable from the claim to the caliphate are amply discussed. The contents of the book range from the times of the Muslim conquest of North Africa and Iberia, to the first part of the XVIIth century with the end of Muslim Iberia and the beginnings of European intervention in Morocco.

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