TY  - JOUR
ID  - 5675
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/arjomand_imam_absconditus
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation: Imami Shiʿism Circa 280-290 A. H./900 A. D.
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JF  - Journal of the American Oriental Society
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A1  - Arjomand,Said Amir
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Y1  - 1997
Y2  - 
VL  - 117
IS  - 1
SP  - 74
EP  - 95
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CY  - 
M1  - 
M3  - Articles
SN  - 
LA  - English
L3  - 
DO  - 10.1163/9789004326279_005
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AB  - Examination of the end of the 9th century and events following the death of the eleventh Imam, and the formal beginnings of the doctrine of the "hidden" twelfth Imam. Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
N1  - Also later published in Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: collected essays (Brill, 2016).  See also the author's Consolation of Theology: Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism and Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiism.
C1  - 
KW  - Hidden Imam
KW  - Imams
KW  - Islam
KW  - Occultation
KW  - Shia Islam (Shiism)
KW  - Twelfth Imam
ER  -