Dismissing oversimplified and politically charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly researched sociological and historical study of Shi'ism and the political order of premodern Iran that exposes the roots of what became Khomeini's theocracy.
Said Amir Arjomandis Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University. He is the author ofThe Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in IranandAfter Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors, as well as the editor or coeditor of several books.
![The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890 [Paperback]](/itemImage/2/1/8/6/2_6675783.jpg "The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890 [Paperback]")