Shi'ism : a religion of protest / Hamid Dabashi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shīʻah--History.

Shīʻah.

Shīʻah--Doctrines--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi’ism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of Shi’ism as a religion of protest—successful only when in a warring position, and losing its legitimacy when in power.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674262911

0674262913

9780674058750

0674058755

OCLC:

709594643