Agents of the Hidden Imam : forging Twelver Shi'ism, 850-950 CE /

Agents of the Hidden Imam : forging Twelver Shi'ism, 850-950 CE /

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Author / Creator:	Hayes, Edmund (Edmund Philip), author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
Subject:	Shīʻah -- History. Imams (Shiites) -- History. Mahdism -- History. Imams (Shiites) Mahdism. Shīʻah. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12727801

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ISBN:	9781108834391 1108834396 9781108994989 1108994989 9781108993098 9781108999229
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The Twelvers are currently the most populous Shiʻi denomination and a hugely influential force within the diverse and complicated history of Islam, and yet relatively few careful critical studies have been made into the complex and contradictory evidence for this foundational moment of Twelver Shiʻism. Central to this story are the agents of the hidden Imam who created the conditions of possibility for the establishment and canonization of this defining doctrine of Twelver Shi'ism: the Occultation ghayba of the twelfth Imam. I aim to show how the direct leadership of the Imams collapsed, how it was replaced by the authority of agents of non-Imamic lineage,9 and why the leadership of the agents collapsed in turn, only to be canonized as a key part of Twelver doctrine"--
Other form:	Online version: Hayes, Edmund, 1978- Agents of the hidden imam 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108993098

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