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Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Origins and Early History of the American Shi'i Community -- 2 The American Shi'i Community: Ethnicity and Identity -- 3 Sunni-Shi'i Interaction in America -- 4 Shi'i Leadership and America -- 5 Shi'i Outreach Activities in America -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Les recherches françaises sur l'islam shi'ite sont, et resteront sans doute encore longtemps, dominées par la personnalité et l'œuvre — monumentale — de Henry Corbin. En Islam iranien, par exemple, compte parmi les travaux que quiconque s'intéressant vraiment à l'Iran ne peut se dispenser de connaître et d'étudier. Et pourtant, ce n'est pas exagérer que d'affirmer qu'il ne se trouve dans ces quatre gros volumes, fruit de plus de vingt années de recherches sur — et d'intimité avec — le shi'isme, à peu près aucun élément qui permette d'éclairer la situation actuelle en Iran et le rôle joué par la religion dans les événements survenus dans ce pays depuis 1978. Comme si deux shi'ismes étrangers l'un à l'autre avaient pu y coexister...

"For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi'ism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of Shi'ism as a religion of protest - successful only when in a warring position, and losing its legitimacy when in power

Homa Katouzian's exceptionally perceptive, influential, and wide-ranging scholarship has been marked by three mutually reinforcing characteristics: a profound and detailed mastery of Iran's multi-civilizational heritage; a comparatively informed focus on the country's distinct historical trajectory; and an existentially grounded pluralist perspective in examining and evaluating the country's major political turning points and actors. These features are already fully displayed in his early magnum opus, The Political Economy of Modern Iran (1981), whose historical and political conclusions have been underlined time and again by the subsequent and often shocking national and international turns. In the intervening period, Katouzian has developed the cyclical theory of Iran's history as an "aridosolatic," "pickaxe" or "short-termist" society. Of the important questions that his contributions raise or address, this paper examines the long-term continuity of Twelver/Imami Shi'ism's trajectory which uniquely in the twentieth century Muslim and other worlds produced the leaders of two great revolutions. The result entails the addition of a still unfolding evolutionary-institutional layer within Katouzian's research program which may enhance its explanatory power and reinforce its political vision.