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Shi'ism : a religion of protest /

"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 legit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.