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TAGS: Islam; Hidden Imam; Imams; Mahdi (Mihdi); Occultation; Prophecies; Qá'im; Shia Islam (Shiism); Twelfth Imam
Abstract:
Background of the history and theology of concepts like Qa'im, Mahdi, ghayba, and the hidden twelfth Imam. No mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
Notes:

The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiism:

A Sociohistorical Perspective

Said Amir Arjomand

published in International Journal of Middle East Studies

28:4, pp. 491-515

1996-11

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DOI 10.1017/S0020743800063807
Language English
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