Shi'ism a religion of protest / [Texte imprimé] :
Hamid Dabashi
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011
- 1 vol. (XVIII-413 p., [15] p.de pl.) : ill., cartes ; 25 cm
Index
Bibliogr. p. 348-389
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