Shi'ism

Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Shi'ism a religion of protest / [electronic resource] : Hamid Dabashi. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - xviii, 413 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Sh�i�ah--History.
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