Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
After the death of the Prophet, a struggle ensued for leadership of
the Muslim community. Those who believe the Prophet's cousin and
son-in-law Ali was his legitimate successor are called the Shi'i,
and Dabashi's book is a fascinating look at this tradition viewed
through the lens of such thinkers as Freud, Weber, Habermas, and
others.
*Booklist*
You can't make sense of the news from the Middle East without some
understanding of the ancient division between Sunni and Shi'ite
Muslims. Shi'ism: A Religion of Protest, by Hamid Dabashi, offers a
comprehensive new history of Shi'ite theology, history, and
politics, down to the current conflict in Iraq.
*Barnes and Noble Review*
[A] challenging and brilliant new book...Dabashi's extraordinarily
rich and powerful book takes Shiism out of the sectarian ghettos
where it was largely confined when it became an ideological weapon
of the Persian Empire in its rivalry with the Sunni Ottomans. By
emancipating Shiism from its instrumental use by the Islamic
Republic of Iran, he has performed a vital cultural--and
political--service.
*New York Review of Books*
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