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Author Ghaemmaghami, Omid, author.

Title Encounters with the hidden imam in early and pre-modern Twelver Shīʻī Islam / by Omid Ghaemmaghami
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 167
Arab history and civilization ; . 167.
Contents Introduction -- 1. The Unknown, the Unseen, and the Unrecognized -- 2. Hidden from All, yet Seen by Some? The Special Case of Three Hadiths -- 3. "A Lying Impostor" -- 4. From the Youth and the Stone to the Proliferation of Accounts -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: A Descriptive Catalogue of Some Key Sources That Deal with the Subject of Encounters with the Hidden Imam -- Appendix 2: Al-Majlisī's Gloss of the "lying impostor" Passage of the Final tawqīʻ of the Hidden Imam -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "The history of what has come to be known as Twelver Shīʻī 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 Shīʻī Islam, Omid Ghaemmaghami demonstrates that in the early years of the so-called Greater Occultation, Shīʻī 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 Shīʻa 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mahdī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 869- -- Cult
SUBJECT Mahdī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 869- fast
Subject Mahdism -- History
Shīʿah -- History
Occultism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Occultism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Mahdism
Cults
Shīʻah
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019046162
ISBN 9789004413153
9004413154
9004340483
9789004340480