Table of Contents

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 Gobol 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

About the Author

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. Hamid Dabashi is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.