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Shi'ism/ a religion of protest Dabashi, Hamid

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: England: The belknap press of Havard university press, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 413p.pISBN: 9780674049451DDC classification: 297.8209

Contents:

Introduction1 DOCTRINAL FOUNDATION 1 Death of a Prophet 29 2 Birth of a Revolutionary Faith 47 3 The Karbala Complex 73 HISTORICAL UNFOLDING 4 In the Battlefields of History 103 5 In the Company of Kings, Caliphs, and Conquerors 132 6 At the Dawn of Colonial Modernity 159 VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 7 Shi'ism and the Crisis of Cultural Modernity 207 8 On Ressentiment and the Politics of Despair 228 9 An Aesthetic of Emancipation 241 CONTEMPORARY CONTESTATIONS 10 The Un/Making of a Politics of Despair 263 11 Toward a New Syncretic Cosmopolitanism 277 12 Contemporary Sites of Contestation 296

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	297.8209 DAB/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P16982

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Introduction1
DOCTRINAL FOUNDATION
1 Death of a Prophet 29
2 Birth of a Revolutionary Faith 47
3 The Karbala Complex 73
HISTORICAL UNFOLDING
4 In the Battlefields of History 103
5 In the Company of Kings, Caliphs,
and Conquerors 132
6 At the Dawn of Colonial Modernity 159
VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
7 Shi'ism and the Crisis of Cultural Modernity 207
8 On Ressentiment and the Politics of Despair 228
9 An Aesthetic of Emancipation 241
CONTEMPORARY CONTESTATIONS
10 The Un/Making of a Politics of Despair 263
11 Toward a New Syncretic Cosmopolitanism 277
12 Contemporary Sites of Contestation 296

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