TY - BOOK AU - Dabashi,Hamid ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Shi'ism: a religion of protest AV - BP192 .D33 2011 U1 - 297.8/209 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Sh�i�ah KW - History KW - Doctrines KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3300903 ER -