Includes index. Persian Farsi collection. INCLUDES INDEX.

Significance of the early stages of Imami Shiʻism /W. Montgomery Watt -- Imami jurisprudence and the role of the Ulama : Mortaza Ansari on emulating the Supreme Exemplar / Juan R. Cole -- Role of the clergy in modern Iran / Azar Tabari -- Revolutionary character of the Ulama : wishful thinking or reality? / Willem M. Floor -- Ayatollah Kashani : precursor of the Islamic Republic? / Yann Richard -- Shariati's social thought / Shahrough Akhavi -- Shiʻism and Islamic economics : Sadr and Bani Sadr / Homa Katouzian -- Velayat-e Faquih and the recovery of Islamic identity in the thought of Ayatollah Khomeini / Gregory Rose -- Images of the Great Satan : representations of the United in the Iranian Revolution / William O. Beeman -- Two images of Husain : accommodation and revolution in an Iranian village / Mary Hegland -- Select Western-language bibliography : Shiʻism and politics, with special reference to Iran / Nikki R. Keddie.