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Abstract:
Overview of the Shi'i doctrine of occultation, or the "Hidden Imam," and how this idea evolved into a principle of salvation: historical background; hidden God / sealed prophecy; theodicy and law; rationalization. Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
Notes:
Purchase this paper online at journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jr/1996/76/4. Also later published in Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: collected essays (Brill, 2016).

See also the author's Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation and Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiism.


The Consolation of Theology:

Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism

Said Amir Arjomand

published in Journal of Religion

76:4, pp. 548-571

University of Chicago, 1996

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