School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi i Islamic Tradition

Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi''ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi''i Islamic Tradition 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...