{"product_id":"the-school-of-hillah-and-the-formation-of-twelver-shi-i-islamic-tradition","title":"The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgainst the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian,and The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi i Islamic Traditionand builds upon recent scholarship in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, and History to argue that Twelver Shi ism is better understood as a discursive tradition. At a conceptual level, this solves the basic problem of how to integrate the extraordinary diversity of Twelver Shi ism across time and space into a single historical category without engaging in a normative assessment of its underlying essence. Furthermore, in light of this conception of tradition, the School of Hillah stands out as a seminal period in the archive of Twelver Shi ism, though it has seldom been recognized as such in European-language scholarship. Insofar as it gave birth to a conversation that would prove capable of encompassing the dynamism of Twelver Shi ism, the School of Hillah should be considered the formative period of Twelver Shi i tradition. Moreover, when the tradition is conceptualized in this manner, it is a bulwark against the very authoritarianism by which Twelver Shi ism has been characterized for so long.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aun Hasan Ali","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44213162836028,"sku":"9780755639120","price":14995.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9780755639120_9f4529e5-8e42-4861-a3c0-f6045aaa9592.jpg?v=1776707345","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-school-of-hillah-and-the-formation-of-twelver-shi-i-islamic-tradition","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}