TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dabat,Alfred
TI  - Shi'ism: a religion of protest 
SN  - 9780674049451
U1  - 252.09 20A
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Shīʻah
KW  - History
KW  - Doctrines
N1  - 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
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