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Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Hamid Dabashi

Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

2011

xviii, 413 p., [15] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-389) and index. , Doctrinal foundation. Death of a prophet -- Birth of a revolutionary faith -- The Karbala complex -- Historical unfolding. In the battlefields of history -- In the company of kings, caliphs, and conquerors -- At the dawn of colonial modernity -- Visual and performing arts. Shiʹism and the crisis of cultural modernity -- On ressentiment and the politics of despair -- Toward an aesthetics of emancipation -- Contemporary contestations. Toward a new syncretic cosmopolitanism -- The un/making of a politics of despair -- Contemporary sites of contestation.

TI

297.

8209

D111s

978-0-674-04945-1