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Yemen (Republic); Shīʿah; politics and government; history

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Shiʿite Islam as a World Religion, Its Social Forms, Bearers and Impact on Social Action -- Formation of Shiʿite Islam as a World Religion of Salvation: Imamate, Occultation and Theodicy -- Origins and Development of Apocalypticism and Messianism in Early Islam: 610–750 CE -- The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiʿism* -- Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation* -- The Consolation of Theology: Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shiʿism* -- Shiʿite Theodicy, Martyrdom and the Meaning of Suffering -- Shiʿite Religion and the Structure of Domination in Iran -- Hierocratic Authority in Shiʿism and the Transition from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran -- Three Decrees of Shah Tahmāsp on Clerical Authority and Public Law in Shiʿite Iran* -- Political Ethic and Public Law in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century* -- Imam Khomeini and the Constitution of the Rule of God in Contemporary Iran -- The Bearers of Shiʿite Islam and Its Institutional Organization -- Hosayn B. Ruh Al-Nawbakhti, the Third Emissary of the Hidden Imam* -- The Clerical Estate and the Emergence of a Shiʿite Hierocracy in Ṣafavid Iran* -- The Office of Mulla-Bashi in Shiʿite Iran* -- Shiʿite Jurists and Iran's Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century* -- Shiʿite Islam and the Motivation of Sociopolitical Action: Revolution and Constitution -- The Rise of Shah Esmāʿil as a Mahdist Revolution* -- Religious Extremism (Ghuluw), Sufism and Sunnism in Safavid Iran: 1501–1722* -- Ideological Revolution in Shiʿism* -- Shiʿite Islam and the Revolution in Iran* -- Shiʿite Conceptions of Authority and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran* -- Shiʿite Dissent in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution* -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi'ism, pointing to the strong Arab attributes of Iraqi Shi'ism. He contends that behind the power struggle in Iraq between Arab Sunnis and Shi'is there exist two sectarian groups that are quite similar. The tension fueling the sectarian problem between Sunnis and Shi'is is political rather than ethnic or cultural, and it reflects the competition of the two groups over the right to rule and to define the meaning of nationalism in Iraq. A new introduction brings this book into the new century and illuminates the role that Shi`is could play in postwar Iraq.