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Twelve Infallible Men : The Imams and the Making of Shi'ism / Matthew Pierce.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674737075
  • 9780674969087
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.820922 23
LOC classification:
  • BP189.43 .P54 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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