Shi'ism a religion of protest /

Main Author: Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10456070
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300 |a xviii, 413 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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