Agents of the Hidden Imam forging Twelver Shi'ism, 850-950 CE - Hayes, Edmund 1978- (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
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Introduction -- 1. The Rise of the Agents in the late Imamate (830-874 CE) -- 2. The Crisis before the Crisis: The Feud between Imamic Contenders and the Power of the Agents -- 3. Crisis! The Mother, the Brother, the Concubine and the Politics of Inheritance -- 4. The Agents of the Nāḥiya in the Era of Perplexity -- 5. The Creation of an Envoy: The Rise of Abū Jaʻfar al-ʻAmrī -- 6. Rise and Fall: Ibn Rawḥ, Shalmaghānī, and Rise and Collapse of the Envoyship -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies