Introduction / Martin Kramer -- The Shiʻa in Islamic history / Bernard Lewis -- Western studies of Shiʻa Islam / Etan Kohlberg -- Shiʻism as interpreted by Khomeini : an ideology of revolutionary violence / Marvin Zonis & Daniel Brumberg -- Mahmud Taleqani and the Iranian revolution / Mangol Bayat -- Islam and social justice in Iran / Shaul Bakhash -- Repetitions in the Iranian revolution / Michael M. J. Fischer -- The Iraqi Shiʻis and their fate / Elie Kedourie -- The Islamic Republic's foreign policy in the Gulf / Shahram Chubin -- Shiʻi unrest in the Gulf / Joseph Kostiner -- The Shiʻis and the Lebanese State / Joseph Olmert -- The origins and resurgence of Amal / Augustus Richard Norton -- Lebanon's Shiʻis after the 1982 war / Clinton Bailey -- Syria's Alawis and Shiʻism / Martin Kramer -- The Iranian revolution and the Afghan resistance / Zalmay Khalilzad -- The Shiʻis of Pakistan / Munir D. Ahmed -- Shiʻi identity and the significance of Muharram in Lucknow, India / Keith Hjortshoj
Notes
"The book is the final product of an international conference convened at Tel Aviv University in December 1984"--Pref
