BOOK TALK: MESSIANISM AND SOCIOPOLITICAL REVOLUTION IN THE ISLAMICATE CIVILIZATION Said Amir Arjomand Distinguished Service Professor, Sociology State University of New York, Stony Brook

Iranian Studies Initiative at NYU 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United States

The talk will highlight the forthcoming companion volume to Revolution: Structure and Meaning in History (University of Chicago Press, 2019) with regard to the motivation to revolutionary action. This approach shifts the focus of analysis from the punitively general causes of revolution to the specific motivation and consequences of revolutionary social action in historical and […]

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