Abstract:This book articulates a religious rationale for political secularism in the Iranian/Shīʿī context. The genealogy of Twelver Shīʿī political theology shows that the bitter experience and lack of success of the Shīʿa in governance during the early centuries of Islamic history led them to link the realization of their ideal political system to transcendental factors. Belief in theocracy has been the basis of Shīʿī political theology, but with the messianic conception of the twelfth Imām in the fourth/tenth centur… Show more
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