Shi'ism

A Religion of Protest

Hamid Dabashi

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$22.50 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674064287

Publication Date: 05/07/2012

Short

448 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

13 halftones; 1 map

Belknap Press

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Prelude
Preface
Introduction
I. Doctrinal Foundation
- 1. Death of a Prophet
- 2. Birth of a Revolutionary Faith
- 3. The Karbala Complex
II. Historical Unfolding
- 4. In the Battlefields of History
- 5. In the Company of Kings, Caliphs, and Conquerors
- 6. At the Dawn of Colonial Modernity
III. Visual and Performing Arts
- 7. Shi’ism and the Crisis of Cultural Modernity
- 8. On Ressentiment and the Politics of Despair
- 9. An Aesthetic of Emancipation
IV. Contemporary Contestations
- 10. The Un/Making of a Politics of Despair
- 11. Toward a New Syncretic Cosmopolitanism
- 12. Contemporary Sites of Contestation
Conclusion
Note on Transliteration
Arabic and Persian Glossary
Schools of Theology, Philosophy, and Political Thought
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index

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