Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Glossary A Note on Transliteration Preface Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Clergy-State Relations Before 1941 Chapter Three: Revival of 'Ulama'Influence and Clergy-State Alignment, 1941 - 1958 Chapter Four: 'Ulama'-State Confrontation and Defeat of the Clergy, 1959-1963 Chapter Five: The Two Clergy Reform Movements and State Bureaucratization of Power in the Sixties And Seventies Chapter Six: The 'Ulama', Islamic Government and The Collapse of the Bureaucratic State Chapter Seven: Conclusions 18 Appendixes Notes Index

About the Author

Shahrough Akhavi is Associate Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran is based on research for the Islam and Social Change Research Seminar at the University of Chicago.