TY  - JOUR
ID  - 5676
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/arjomand_consolation_theology
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - Consolation of Theology, The: Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism
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JF  - Journal of Religion
JA  - 
A1  - Arjomand,Said Amir
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Y1  - 1996
Y2  - 
VL  - 76
IS  - 4
SP  - 548
EP  - 571
M2  - 
PB  - University of Chicago
CY  - 
M1  - 
M3  - Articles
SN  - 
LA  - English
L3  - 
DO  - 
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AB  - Overview of the Shi'i doctrine of occultation, or the "Hidden Imam," and how this idea evolved into a principle of salvation: historical background; hidden God / sealed prophecy; theodicy and law; rationalization. Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
N1  - Purchase this paper online at journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jr/1996/76/4. Also later published in Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: collected essays (Brill, 2016).  See also the author's Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation and Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiism.
C1  - 
KW  - Hidden Imam
KW  - Imams
KW  - Islam
KW  - Shia Islam (Shiism)
KW  - Twelfth Imam
ER  -