Overview
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.
- | Author: Matthew Pierce
- | Publisher: Harvard University Press
- | Publication Date: June 13, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0674737075
- | ISBN-13: 9780674737075
