️ ظهور الگوهای قدرت در شیعه‌ی متقدم:.. مختار و زیبایی شناسی اقناع

♦️ ظهور الگوهای قدرت در شیعه ی متقدم:

🔹مختار و زیبایی شناسی اقناع

♦️ Emerging Patterns of Authority in Early Shiʿism:
🔹al-Mukhtār and the Aesthetics of Persuasion

🔸Torsten Hylén؛ Dalarna University, Sweden

📑Abstract

In this study the author examines some aspects of authority in the movement of the Shiʿite leader al-Mukhtār. The notion of religious aesthetics as developed by Birgit Meyer is used as an analytical tool. It is argued that al-Mukhtār accomplished his political endeavour partly by introducing and controlling three “aesthetic forms” which functioned as “media” between the people and the deceased ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib: his claim to act on behalf of ʿAlī’s son Ibn al-Ḥanafiyya, whom he called al-mahdī, “the rightly guided”; his call to revenge for the killing of ʿAlī’s son Ḥusayn; and his exhibiting of a chair that he claimed had belonged to ʿAlī. ...

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