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Key BIB32833
Reference type Book
Title Shi'ism : A Religion of Protest
Author Dabashi, Hamid
Year2011
Date 2011
Publisher The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place published Cambridge, MA
Issue 10.
ISBN 9780674049451 (alk. paper). 0674049454 (alk. paper)
Notes Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths: pp. 160-203; 211-212, 224, illus. #9, 236-239, 242, 264, 265, 266, 285-286,297-298, 299-300,301-302, 310, 312, 329, 341, 345, 369-370, 372-376.
LC Control Number: 2010038963
Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-389) and index
Contents: Doctrinal foundation. Death of a prophet -- Birth of a revolutionary faith -- The Karbala complex -- Historical unfolding. In the battlefields of history -- In the company of kings, caliphs, and conquerors -- At the dawn of colonial modernity -- Visual and performing arts. Shi'ism and the crisis of cultural modernity -- On ressentiment and the politics of despair -- Toward an aesthetics of emancipation -- Contemporary contestations. Toward a new syncretic cosmopolitanism -- The un/making of a politics of despair -- Contemporary sites of contestation
Language English
Keywords SHIAH; HISTORY; BABI FAITH; TAHIRIH; REVOLUTION; ANTI-BABI; ANTI-BAHA'I
Number of pages xviii, 413, [15] of plates

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