The house of sorrow
The twelve imams
The commander of the faithful: Alī ibn Abī Tālib (656-661)
The abdication of al-Hasan (661)
The tragedy of Karbalā (680)
The origins of Shi'i religious tradition: the campaign of the "penitents" (684)
Withdrawal from politics: the sixth imam, Ja'far as-Sādiq (702-765)
The deportation of the seventh imam (796)
The eighth imam Alī Ar-Ridā as heir apparent (816)
The shrine of Qom
The imams in Samarra (836-873)
The occultation of the twelfth imam (873)
The fourteen infallible ones
The return of the Mahdī
The deluge of weeping
Flagellant procession and passion play
The origins of the ʿAshūrā ritual
European reports from the time of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722)
The elegy
The ten days of Muharram
The passion play
Chest beaters and flagellants
The government of the expert
The Islam of the mullahs
The representative of the hidden imam
The imam's money: the "fifth"
Participation in the government (tenth to eleventh centuries)
The foundation of Shi'i law: the "four books"
The new center: al-Hilla (thirteenth to fourteenth centuries)
The basis of the authority of the mullahs: the principle of ijtihād
The emergence of the Shi'i clergy (sixteenth century)
Monarchy and clergy as rivals (seventeenth century)
Usūlīs and akhbārīs: rationalists and traditionalists (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)
Secular and spiritual arm (nineteenth century)
Marja' at-taqlīd: the source of imitation
The revolutionary Shi'a
The struggle against westernization
The rise of Qom
Shi'i revolutionary ideology
Khomeinī and the "government of the expert"
The leader of the revolution
Illustrating ijtihād using the example of birth control
The successor to the Rahbar
The Shi'ites as a party in the Middle East conflicts
Shi'ites outside of Iran
Azerbaijan
Lebanon
India and Pakistan
Iraq
Future outlook
Twelver Shi'i population in Islamic countries
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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