TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pierce,Matthew
TI  - Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi'ism 
SN  - 9780674737075
AV  - BP189.43 .P54 2016
U1  - 297.820922 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Identification (Religion)
KW  - Imams (Shiites)
KW  - Biography
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Islamic hagiography
KW  - Shīʿah
KW  - Shīʻah
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / Shi'a
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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