Preface
Note to the Reader
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction (Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
I. Shi'i Political Doctrines
Chapter 1. Imamate
Karl-Heinrich Goböl
Chapter 2. Messianism and the Mahdi
' allamah Tabatabat't
Jassim M. Hussain
Abdulaziz A. Sachedina
Chapter 3. Martyrdom
Abdulaziz A. Sachedina
Hamid Enayat
Chapter 4. Jihad
'allamah Al-Hilli
II. Authority, Law and Society in Shic ism
Chapter 5. The Shi'i Principles of Jurisprudence
Hossein Modarressi Tabataba'i
Chapter 6. Ruler and Society
Imam 'ali
Sulayman Kattani
Chapter 7. Political Theory and Practice
Ann K. Lambton
Said Amir Arjomand
Chapter 8. Economic Theories and Practices
Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr
Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmud Taliqani
III. Shi'ism in History
Chapter 9. The Historical Growth of Shi'ism
'allamah Tabatabat
Chapter 10. The Buyid Era
Marshall Hodgson
Chapter 11. The Safavid Era
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Roger Savory
Said Amir Arjomand
Albert Hourani
Chapter 12. The Qajar Era
Said Amir Arjomand
Hamid Algar
Chapter 13. The Pahlavi Era
Shahrough Akhavi
Said Amir Arjomand
IV. Shic i Minorities in the Islamic World
Chapter 14. Shi'ism in the Indian Subcontinent
John Hollister
Annemarie Schimmel
Chapter 15. Shi'ism in the Arab World
Michel Mazzaoui
Helena Cobban
Hanna Batatu
Chapter 16. Shi'ism in Turkey
Metin And
Chapter 17. Shi'ism in East Africa
Jan Knappert
V. Shi'ism in the Modern World: Early Political Ideas
Chapter 18. The Usuli-Akhbari Controversy
Mangol Bayat
Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi
Chapter 19. Early Propagation of Wilayat-i Faqih and Mulla Ahmad Naraqi
Hamid Dabashi
Chapter 20. The Tobacco Rebellion and Haji Mirza Hasan Shirazi
Edward G. Browne
Nikki R. Keddie
Chapter 21. The Debates Over the Constitutional Revolution
Hamid Enayat
Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Na'ini
Abdul-Hadi Hairi
Shaykh Fadlullah Nuri
VI. Shi'ism in the Modern World: Later Political Ideas
Chapter 22. Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khumayni and Wilayat-i Faqih
Hamid Enayat
Mangol Bayat
Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khumayni
Chapter 23. 'Ali Sharic ati
Shahrough Akhavi
Hamid Dabashi
'Ali Sharic ati
Chapter 24. Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari
Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari
Chapter 25. Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr
Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr
Chapter 26. Imam Musa Sadr
Fouad Ajami
Index