Twelve Infallible Men : The Imams and the Making of Shi'ism /
Pierce, Matthew
Twelve Infallible Men : The Imams and the Making of Shi'ism / Matthew Pierce. - 1 online resource (272 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Dates and Transliteration -- Prologue -- 1. Setting the Stage -- 2. Consolation for a Community -- 3. Betrayal and the Bound aries of Faithfulness -- 4. Vulnerable Bodies and Masculine Ideals -- 5. Entering the Cosmos -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. The Fourteen Infallibles: A Quick Guide -- Appendix 2. Collective Biographies of the Imams: A Genre Survey -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
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In the tenth century Shi¿a scholars assembled accounts of twelve imams' lives, portraying them as miracle workers who were betrayed. These biographies invoked shared cultural memories, shaped communal responses and ritual practices of mourning, and inspired Shi¿a identity and religious imagination for centuries to come, Matthew Pierce shows.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674737075 9780674969087
10.4159/9780674969087 doi
Identification (Religion).
Imams (Shiites)--Biography--History and criticism.
Islamic hagiography.
Shīʿah.
Shīʻah.
RELIGION / Islam / Shi'a.
BP189.43 / .P54 2016
297.820922
Twelve Infallible Men : The Imams and the Making of Shi'ism / Matthew Pierce. - 1 online resource (272 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Dates and Transliteration -- Prologue -- 1. Setting the Stage -- 2. Consolation for a Community -- 3. Betrayal and the Bound aries of Faithfulness -- 4. Vulnerable Bodies and Masculine Ideals -- 5. Entering the Cosmos -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. The Fourteen Infallibles: A Quick Guide -- Appendix 2. Collective Biographies of the Imams: A Genre Survey -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In the tenth century Shi¿a scholars assembled accounts of twelve imams' lives, portraying them as miracle workers who were betrayed. These biographies invoked shared cultural memories, shaped communal responses and ritual practices of mourning, and inspired Shi¿a identity and religious imagination for centuries to come, Matthew Pierce shows.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674737075 9780674969087
10.4159/9780674969087 doi
Identification (Religion).
Imams (Shiites)--Biography--History and criticism.
Islamic hagiography.
Shīʿah.
Shīʻah.
RELIGION / Islam / Shi'a.
BP189.43 / .P54 2016
297.820922