Bibliography: 3BUUHJAA

key	3BUUHJAA
title	Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-modern Twelver Shīʻī Islam
author	Ghaemmaghami, Omid
authority control	Omid Ghaemmaghami
item type	Book
publication year	2020
date	2020
ISBN	9789004340480 0929-2403
abstract note	The history of what has come to be known as Twelver Shīʻī Islam is a history of attempts to deal with the abrupt loss of the Imam. In Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-‎Modern Twelver Shīʻī Islam, ‎Omid Ghaemmaghami demonstrates that in the early years of the so-called Greater Occultation, Shīʻī authorities maintained that all contact with the Imam had been sundered, forcing him to remain incommunicado ‎until his (re)appearance‎. This position, however, proved ‎untenable to maintain. Almost a ‎century after the start of the Greater Occultation, prominent scholars ‎began to concede the ‎possibility that some Shīʻa can meet the Hidden Imam. Accounts of encounters with the Imam from the Greater Occultation soon began to appear, adumbrating their exponential growth in later centuries.
number pages	xii, 276
series	Islamic History and Civilization : Studies and Texts
series number	167
publisher	Brill
place	Leiden ; Boston
language	English
manual tags	HISTORY; SHIAH; MAHDISM; OCCULTISM; MAHDI, MUHAMMAD IBN AL-HASAN