Expectation of the millennium : Shiʻism in history / edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr.

Includes index.

Introduction / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Imamate / Karl-Heinrich Göbel -- Messianism and the Mahdi / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi, Jassim M. Hussain, & Abdulaziz A. Sachedina -- Martyrdom / Abdulaziz A. Sachedina & Hamid Enayat -- Jihad / ʻAllamah al-Hilli -- The Shiʻi principles of jurisprudence / Hossein Moddaressi Tabatabaʼi -- Ruler and society / Imam ʻAli & Sulayman Kattani -- Political theory and practice / Ann K. Lambton & Said Amir Arjomand -- Economic theories and practices / Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr & Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmud Taliqani -- The historical growth of Shiʻism / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi -- The Buyid era / Marshall Hodgson -- The Safavid era / Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Roger Savory, Said Amir Arjomand, & Albert Hourani -- The Qajar era / Said Amir Arjomand & Hamid Algar -- The Pahlavi era / Shahrough Akhavi & Said Amir Arjomand -- Shiʻism in the Indian subcontinent / John Hollister & Annemarie Schimmel -- Shiʻism in the Arab world / Michel Mazzaoui, Helena Cobban, & Hanna Batatu -- Shiʻism in Turkey / Metin And -- Shiʻism in East Africa / Jan Knappert -- The Usuli-Akhbari controversy / Mangol Bayat & Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi -- Early propagation of wilayat-i faqih and Mulla Ahmad Naraqi / Hamid Dabashi -- The tobacco rebellion and Haji Mirza Hasan Shirazi / Edward G. Browne & Nikki R. Keddie -- The debates over the constitutional revolution / Hamid Enayat, Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Naʼini, & Shaykh Fadlullah Nuri -- Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khumayni and wilayat-i faqih / Hamid Enayat, Mangol Bayat, & Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khumayni -- ʻAli Shariʻati / Shahrough Akhavi, Hamid Dabashi, & ʻAli Shariʻati -- Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari / Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari -- Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr / Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr -- Imam Musa Sadr / Fouad Ajami.

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This is an anthology on the history, politics, and social aspects of Shi'ism including translations of original sources. It examines the historical development of Shi'ism, Shi'i political thought, the status of Shi'i minority communities in the Muslim world, and the life and works of prominent social and political thinkers. The book assesses the extent of the politicization process in Shi'ism in recent years and addresses that important question of the Shi'i attitude towards authority.

English.

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