Table of Contents

Preface Contributors 1 Introduction: Shi'ism, Authority, and Political Culture Said Amir Arjomand Part I: Essays 2 Imam and Community in the Pre-Ghayba Period Etan Kohlberg 3 The Evolution of Popular Eulogy of the Imams among the Shi'a Mohammad-Dja'far Mahdjoub Translated And Adapted By John R. Perry 4 The Mujtahid of the Age and the Mulla-bashi: An Intermediate Stage in the Institutionalization of Religious Authority in Shi'ite Iran Said Amir Arjomand 5 In Between the Madrasa and the Marketplace: The Designation of Clerical Leadership in Modern Shi'ism Abbas Amanat 6 Constitutionalism and Clerical Authority Abdol Karim Lahidji 7 Shari'at Sangalaji: A Reformist Theologian of the Rida Shah Period Yann Richard Translated By Kathryn Arjomand 8 Ideological Revolution in Shi'ism Said Amir Arjomand Part II: Selected Sources 9 An Annotated Bibliography on Government and Statecraft Mohammad-Taqi Danishpazhouh Translated And Adapted By Andrew Newman 10 'Allama al-Hilli on the Imamate and Ijtihad Translated And Edited By John Cooper 11 Two Decrees of Shah Tahmasp Concerning Statecraft and the Authority of Shaykh 'All al-Karaki Translated And Edited By Said Amir Arjomand 12 The Muqaddas al-Ardabili on Taqlid Translated And Edited By John Cooper 13 Two Seventeenth-Century Persian Tracts on Kingship and Rulers Translated And Edited By William C. Chittick 14 Lives of Prominent Nineteenth-Century 'Ulama' from Tunika-buni's Qisas al-'Ulama' Translated And Edited By Hamid Dabashi 15 An Exchange between a Mujtahid and a Qajar Official Translated By Hamid Dabashi 16 Two Clerical Tracts on Constitutionalism Translated And Edited By Hamid Dabashi 17 Clerical Authority in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran Index

About the Author

Said Amir Arjomand is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.