| Key | BIB32833 |
| Reference type | Book |
| Title | Shi'ism : A Religion of Protest |
| Author | Dabashi, Hamid |
| Year | 2011 |
| 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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