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Author Cohen, Ronen

Title The Hojjatiyeh Society in Iran : ideology and practice from the 1950s to the present / Ronen A. Cohen
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 194 pages)
Contents Part I. The spiritual background to the Imamate Shi'a -- Ithna A'shariyyah and the first half of the 20th century: 1. The story of the Shi'a -- 2. The revival of the Shi'a after the Qajars -- Part II. The Baha'i faith and the emergence of the Hojjatiyeh: 3. The Baha'i faith and its origins in Shi'a Islam and despair -- 4. The Hojjatiyeh Society -- Part III. Post-revolution era and the Hojjatiyeh as counter-revolutionaries movement: 5. Danger ahead -- challenging Khomeini -- 6. The evolution of extremism
Summary The Hojjatiyeh Society is one of the most fascinating religious groups in modern Iran. The society started its way in the 1950s as an anti-Baha'i movement but found itself fighting Khomeini's Velayat-i Faqih and leading an anti-Khomeini and messianic agenda. Despite the Hojjatiyeh's fight against Khomeini, the Hojjatiyeh became, unwillingly and unintentionally, a leading faction in the Islamic Revolution, with its members coming to occupy some of the highest echelon posts in Iranian politics. The Hojjatiyeh was dismissed in 1983 by Khomeini, but it seems it never truly left the political sphere until today, when its traces can still be found on Iranian politics. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his mentor the Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi are reported to be Hojjatiyeh members
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Anjuman-i Ḥujjatīyah.
SUBJECT Anjuman-i Ḥujjatīyah fast
Subject Shīʿah -- Iran -- History -- 20th century
Bahais -- Persecutions -- Iran
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Bahais -- Persecutions
Ethnic relations
Shīʻah
SUBJECT Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002666
Iran -- Ethnic relations
Subject Iran
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137304773
1137304774
1299406432
9781299406438
9781349454594
1349454591