Shi'ism, Resistance, and Revolution

Name: Shi'ism, Resistance, and Revolution
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ISBN: 9780813304533

ISBN-10: 0813304539

ISBN-13: 9780813304533

Edition: 1987

Authors: Martin Kramer, Clinton Bailey, Shaul Bakhash, Michael M. J. Fischer, Augustus R. Norton

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Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/11/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 324
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Augustus Richard Norton is professor of international relations and anthropology at Boston University and a fellow of the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies. A former U.S. Army officer and West Point professor, he has conducted research in Lebanon for more than three decades.



About the Book and Editor


The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies The Shiloah Institute


Preface


Introduction


Shi'ism, Islam, and the West


The Shi'ain Islamic History


Western Studies of Shi'a Islam


Iran: Shi'ism and Revolution


Shi'ism as Interpreted by Khomeini: An Ideology of Revolutionary Violence


Mahmud Taleqani and the Iranian Revolution


Islam and Social Justice in Iran


Repetitions in the Iranian Revolution


Iraq and the Gulf Between Shi'ism and Arabism


The Iraqi Shi'is and Their Fate


The Islamic Republic's Foreign Policy in the Gulf


Shi'i Unrest in the Gulf


Lebanon and Syria Protest of the Disinherited


The Shi'is and the Lebanese State


The Origins and Resurgence of Amal


Lebanon's Shi'is After the 1982 War


Notes


Syria's Alawis and Shi'ism


South Asia: Frontier Shi'ism


The Iranian Revolution and the Afghan Resistance


The Shi'is of Pakistan


Shi'i Identity and the Significance of Muharramin Lucknow, India


Notes


About the Contributors


Index