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Before addressing Ibadism as a historical event that evolved incrementally, this chapter will first provide a theoretical framework regarding the scope, assumptions, and methodology of this work, including some background information about Ibadism in modern scholarship, an explanation of the contribution of the present work, and a theoretical paradigm of Ibadism in a universal context. My hope is to provide a link between various moments of dissent that have occurred over the history of Islamic civilization and concepts of revolution and rebellion as the generic extensions of dissent in the global community throughout history.
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“One problem plaguing the study of the Ibadiyya and Kharijites is the uncritical reliance on either Sunni or Ibādī sources for historical narratives. Such an approach ignores the fact that these accounts were, to varying degrees, tailored to serve the political and self-serving interests of the sect.” Adam R. Gaiser, Muslims, Scholars, and Soldiers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). 5
Ellen Kay Trimberger, Revolution from Above: Military Bureaucrats and Development in Japan, Turkey, and Peru (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1978), 12.
Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968), 264.
Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 4.
Perez Zagorin, Rebels and Rulers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 1:17.
Robert Tucker, the author of The Marxian Revolutionary Idea, argued that economic causes and class struggle are behind revolutions. See, Carl Friedrich, Revolution (New York: Atherton, 1966), 228.
Alexis Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution (New York: Anchor, 1955), 8.
H. Gerth, From Max Weber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), 296.
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Souaiaia, A.E. (2013). Origins and Transformation of Ibadism. In: Anatomy of Dissent in Islamic Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379115_3
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