Shi'ism a religion of protest /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
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Table of 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.