TY - BOOK ID - 137481856 TI - Twelve Infallible Men : The Imams and the Making of Shi’ism PY - 2016 SN - 0674969103 0674969081 PB - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Islamic hagiography. KW - Imams (Shiites) KW - Shīʻah. KW - Identification (Religion) KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137481856 AB - 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. ER -