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Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam

Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam

Ghaemmaghami, Omid

Hardcover

Series: Islamic History and Civilization, Book 167

IslamGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

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ISBN10: 9004340483
ISBN13: 9789004340480
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: Feb 13 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
The history of Twelver Shīʿī Islam is a history of attempts to deal with the abrupt loss of the Imam. In Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre- Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam, Omid Ghaemmaghami demonstrates that in the early years of what came to be known as the Greater Occultation, Shīʿī authorities maintained that all contact with the Imam had been sundered, forcing him to remain incommunicado until his (re)appearance . This position, however, proved untenable to maintain. Almost a century after the start of the Greater Occultation, prominent scholars began to concede the possibility that some Shīʿa can meet the Hidden Imam. Accounts of encounters with the Imam from the Greater Occultation soon began to appear, adumbrating their exponential growth in later centuries.

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