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Twelve Infallible Men: The Imāms and the Making of Shiʿism. By Matthew Pierce. pp. 272. Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2016.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2019

George Warner*
Affiliation:
Ruhr-Universität BochumGeorge.warner@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Abstract

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2019 

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References

1 A useful catalogue of such works from the fourth/tenth century to the present is supplied in Appendix 2.

2 This approach is nowhere better expressed than in Pierce's introductory note that his reader may choose to skip his opening discussions of the nature, context and authorship of each of his biographies (p. 9).