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Agents of the Hidden Imam - Forging Twelver Shi'ism, 850-950 CE (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Agents of the Hidden Imam - Forging Twelver Shi'ism, 850-950 CE (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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In 874 CE, the eleventh Imam died, and the Imami community
splintered. The institutions of the Imamate were maintained by the
dead Imam's agents, who asserted they were in contact with a hidden
twelfth Imam. This was the beginning of 'Twelver' Shi'ism. Edmund
Hayes provides an innovative approach to exploring early Shi'ism,
moving beyond doctrinal history to provide an analysis of the
socio-political processes leading to the canonisation of the
Occultation of the twelfth Imam. Hayes shows how these agents
cemented their authority by reproducing the physical signs of the
Imamate, including protocols of succession, letters and the alm
taxes. Four of these agents were ultimately canonised as "envoys"
but traces of earlier conceptions of authority remain embedded in
the earliest reports. Hayes dissects the complex and contradictory
Occultation narratives to show how, amidst the claims of numerous
actors, the institutional positioning of the envoys allowed them to
assert a quasi-Imamic authority in the absence of an Imam.
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