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Agriculture, Poverty and Reform in Iran (RLE Iran D)

By: Mohammad Amad

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Agriculture, Poverty and Reform in Iran (RLE Iran D)

By: Mohammad Amad

As in many developing countries, the prospects for land reform in Iran seemed promising. It was expected to improve rural poverty and stimulate agricultural development by replacing the traditional landlord-peasant system with more peasant-biased, modern farming. This book assesses the economic consequences of land reform, focusing particularly on its effect on the living standards of the rural poor. Amid describes a ‘biomodal’ system of large and small farms that emerged after the reform. Large farms, with government support, modernized and grew more profitable cash crops, whereas small farms found difficulty in obtaining credit and continued to rely on traditional techniques and staple food crops. Land reform was not, the author argues a success for the majority of the Iranian rural population who experienced virtually no improvement in living standards and a growth of rural inequality as a result.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136820833

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9781136820830

The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an

Scriptural Sources of Islam Between History and Fervor

By: Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

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The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an

Scriptural Sources of Islam Between History and Fervor

By: Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

Two major events occurred in the early centuries of Islam that determined its historical and spiritual development in the centuries that followed: the formation of the sacred scriptures, namely the Qur'an and the Hadith, and the chronic violence that surrounded the succession of the Prophet, manifesting in repression, revolution, massacre, and civil war. This is the first book to evaluate the writing of Islam's major scriptural sources within the context of these bloody, brutal conflicts. Conducting a philological and historical study of little-known though significant ancient texts, Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi rebuilds a Shi'ite understanding of Islam's early history and the genesis of its holy scriptures. At the same time, he proposes a fresh interpretative framework and a new data set for theorizing the early history of Islam, isolating the contradictions between Shi'ite and Sunni sources and their contribution to the tensions that rile these groups today.

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292

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Columbia University Press

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0231540655

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9780231540650

Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

By: Mohammad Hassan Khalil

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Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

By: Mohammad Hassan Khalil

This book compares the conflicting and consequential interpretations of jihad offered by mainstream Muslim scholars, violent Muslim radicals, and New Atheists.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108421547

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The Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism

The Sources of Esotericism in Islam

By: Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

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The Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism

The Sources of Esotericism in Islam

By: Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

The Imam, the Divine Guide, is the central point around which the Shi'ite religion turns. The power of Shi'ism comes from the actions of the Imam. This title is reserved exclusively for the sucessors of the prophets in their mission. The author shows that from the beginning of Shi'ite Islam until the tenth century, the Imam was primarily a master of knowledge with supernatural powers, not a jurist theologian. The Imam is the threshold through which God and the creatures communicate. He is thus a cosmic necessity, the key and the center of the universal economy of the sacred. The author presents Shi'ism as a religion founded on double dimensions where the role of the leader remains constantly central: perpetual initiation into divine secrets and continued confrontation with anti-initiation forces. Without esotericism, exotericism loses its meaning. Early Imamism is an esoteric doctrine. Historically, then, at the beginning of esotericism in Islam, we find an initiatory, mystical, and occultist doctrine. This is the first book to systematically explore the immense literature attributed to the Imams themselves in order to recover the authentic original vision. It restores an essential source of esotericism in the world of Islam.

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State University of New York Press

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0791494799

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9780791494790

Agriculture, Poverty and Reform in Iran (RLE Iran D)

By: Mohammad Javad Amad

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1136820825

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Book's by Mohammad Javad Amad

Agriculture, Poverty and Reform in Iran (RLE Iran D)

Agriculture, Poverty and Reform in Iran (RLE Iran D)

The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an

The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an

Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

The Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism

The Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism

Agriculture, Poverty and Reform in Iran (RLE Iran D)

Agriculture, Poverty and Reform in Iran (RLE Iran D)

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