Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval IslamThis study of messianism and revolution examines an extremely rich though unexplored historical record on the rise of Islam and its sociopolitical revolutionsfrom Muhammad's constitutive revolution in Arabia to the Abbasid revolution in the East and the Fatimid and Almohad revolutions in North Africa and the Maghreb. Bringing the revolutions together in a comprehensive framework, Sad Amir Arjomand uses sociological theory as well as the critical tools