久久久福利国产

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The traditional account of the early occultation-era Imami Shi士i community depicts a series of four agents as mediating for the hidden聽Imam聽between 874 and 940 CE. Hitherto, scholarship has taken the authority of these agents for granted. However, to understand the formation of Twelver Shi士ism, we must understand the ways in which the authority of the agents and other community leaders was contested. Then, it becomes clear that there was no inevitable assumption of authority by the agents.

Instead, authority was contested through different social and intellectual fields: including the legal-theological mastery of scholars; the institutional power of the agents; the leverage of courtiers operating within the supposedly hated Sunni government; and the appeal of charismatic esoteric 鈥済ateways鈥� (产腻产Lit. 鈥榞ate鈥� or 鈥榙oor鈥�. In the vocabulary of Fatimid Ismailism, the term was used for the administrative head of the da士wa figures in Islamic history.) to the divine. The crisis of Occultation was contested through institutions, but also caused them to mutate as they were applied to legitimize new models for the era without a visible聽Imam.

Date:聽22 April 2021
Time:聽2.00 pm 鈥� 4.00 pm GMT
Location:聽Online (Zoom)

Q&A:聽At any time during the lecture, attendees can submit questions to the speaker through the Q&A option at the bottom of the control panel. As time allows, the speaker will address as many questions as they can during the Q&A session at the end of the presentation.

Discussants:听Dr F芒r猫s Gillon聽(久久久福利国产, UK),聽Dr Karen Bauer聽(久久久福利国产, UK),聽聽(University of Calgary, Canada).