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Item Length: 9 in Author: Edmund Hayes Genre: Religion, History Format: Trade Paperback Item Width: 6 in height: 0.6 in Topic: Comparative Religion, Middle East / General width: 6 in Item Height: 0.6 in Book Title: Agents of the Hidden Imam : Forging Twelver Shiism, 850-950 CE Language: English Illustrator: Yes Publisher: Cambridge University Press Book Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization Ser. ISBN: 9781108994989 Publication Year: 2024 Number of Pages: Xiii, 247 Pages

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Agents of the Hidden Imam : Forging Twelver Shi'ism, 850-950 CE, Paperback by.... Agents of the Hidden Imam : Forging Twelver Shi'ism, 850-950 CE, Paperback by Hayes, Edmund, ISBN 1108994989, ISBN-13 9781108994989, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "The Twelvers are currently the most populous Shi°i denomination and a hugely influential force within the diverse and complicated history of Islam, and yet relatively few careful critical studies have been made into the complex and contradictory evidence for this foundational moment of Twelver Shi°ism. Central to this story are the agents of the hidden Imam who created the conditions of possibility for the establishment and canonization of this defining doctrine of Twelver Shi'ism: the Occultation ghayba of the twelfth Imam. I aim to show how the direct leadership of the Imams collapsed, how it was replaced by the authority of agents of non-Imamic lineage,9 and why the leadership of the agents collapsed in turn, only to be canonized as a key part of Twelver doctrine"--

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