| web link | bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB28962 |
| reference type | Book |
| title | Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-modern Twelver Shīʻī Islam |
| series title | Islamic History and Civilization : Studies and Texts |
| author | Ghaemmaghami, Omid |
| Authority control 1 | Omid Ghaemmaghami |
| authority control | Omid Ghaemmaghami |
| year | 2020 |
| publisher | Brill |
| place published | Leiden ; Boston |
| issue | 10. |
| ISBN | 9789004340480 0929-2403 |
| abstract | 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. |
| notes | Bábí Faith: pp. 171, 181, 183, 218, 223, 227-228 233, 234, 237, 242, 244. LCCN 2019046161. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- 1. The Unknown, the Unseen, and the Unrecognized -- 2. Hidden from All, yet Seen by Some? The Special Case of Three Hadiths -- 3. "A Lying Impostor" -- 4. From the Youth and the Stone to the Proliferation of Accounts -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: A Descriptive Catalogue of Some Key Sources That Deal with the Subject of Encounters with the Hidden Imam -- Appendix 2: Al-Majlisī's Gloss of the "lying impostor" Passage of the Final tawqīʻ of the Hidden Imam -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| language | English |
| keywords | MAHDI, MUHAMMAD IBN AL-HASAN; MAHDISM; SHIAH; HISTORY; OCCULTISM |
| number of pages | xii, 276 |
| series volume | 167 |
| call number | BP193.22 .G43 2020 |
| accession number | 21399369 |
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