POLI1042 Lecture Notes - Middle Ages, Sunnah, Alexis De Tocqueville
1 Apr 2014
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Naipaul: gain a glimpse of how personal doctrines are. 1979 = revolution where khomeini took over shah: shii regime based on sharia, sadeq = first interpreter, naipaul didn"t like him (judgemental) Sadeq = trying to be something he"s not, even though he"s a peasant (deferential but resentful: collars his sensibility, behzad = second interpreter improvement, doesn"t try to pretend to be something he"s not. Ideals/positions parallel who he is: more objective, without faith, tehran capital of iran, qom center of religious learning of shii mullahs, avicenna = persian philosopher. 3 major divisions of shii islam: zaydis = zayad is imam (fivers) (zayad = 5th grandson of husayn). Any descendent of prophet can be imam: ismailis = seveners, twelvers = majority believe end of imamate occurred in 874 and are waiting for. Occultation = in hiding/obscured: august 1979 = time of political transition (shah to ayatollah khameini, shah was backed by west and arose as westerners wanted influence.
