Twelve Infallible Men : : The Imams and the Making of Shi'ism / / Matthew Pierce.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• VerfasserIn: Pierce, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Dates and Transliteration --; Prologue --; 1. Setting the Stage --; 2. Consolation for a Community --; 3. Betrayal and the Bound aries of Faithfulness --; 4. Vulnerable Bodies and Masculine Ideals --; 5. Entering the Cosmos --; Epilogue --; Appendix 1. The Fourteen Infallibles: A Quick Guide --; Appendix 2. Collective Biographies of the Imams: A Genre Survey --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Select Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674969087; 9783110485103; 9783110485394; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674969087
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Matthew Pierce.

In the tenth century Shi¿a scholars assembled accounts of twelve imams' lives, portraying them as miracle workers who were betrayed. These biographies invoked shared cultural memories, shaped communal responses and ritual practices of mourning, and inspired Shi¿a identity and religious imagination for centuries to come, Matthew Pierce shows.