Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Paperback Edition; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Battle of the Old and the Charismatic; 2. Traditional Arab Authority: An Established Order; 3. Muhammad's Charismatic Authority: Towards an Equivalent Islamic Typology; 4. Establishment of Muhammad's Charismatic Authority: Emergence of a New Order; 5. The Foundations of Sunnite Authority: The Routinization of Charisma; 6. The Foundations of Shicite Authority: The Perpetuation of Charisma
7. The Foundations of Kharijite Authority: The Dissemination of Charisma8. The Charismatic Revolution as a Reconstitution of a Moral Demand System and an Originator of New Paradigmatic Patterns of Authority; Bibliography; Index